Euan

Euan or Ewan is a British/Canadian, male given name, most common throughout the United Kingdom and Canada, due to the influence of Scots in both nations. It is a derivative of the Pictish name, Vuen (or 'Wen'), which is the Pictish British cognate of Eoghan in Gaelic.^[1] It is also, less commonly, a surname.

It is said to mean "born of the yew (tree)"^[2] and is also associated loosely with the Scottish god of the glen. In Gaelic etymology, Euan implies a plethoric (red-faced) individual.

Owain is the predominant Welsh spelling of the name (or Owen when Anglicized), but Iwan and Iuan are also found, as they are in Cornish. Ouen can be considered the French or Breton spelling of the name.

Euan is also a Latin word meaning Bacchus.^[3]

People with the given name

In the arts and media

• Ewan Christian (1814–1895), British architect
• Ewan Dobson (born 1981), Canadian guitarist
• Euan Heng (born 1945), Scottish painter
• Euan Kerr, editor of The Beano
• Euan Lloyd (1923–2016), British film producer
• Euan MacLeod (born 1956), New Zealand painter
• Ewan McGregor (born 1971), Scottish actor
• Euan Morton (born 1977), Scottish singer and actor
• Euan Uglow (1932–2000), English painter
• Ewan Stewart (born 1957), Scottish actor

In sports

• Euan Aitken (born 1995), Australian rugby league footballer
• Euan Burton (born 1979), British judoka
• Euan Byers (born 1974), Scottish curler
• Euan Dale (born 1985), Scottish swimmer
• Euan Henderson (born 1967), Scottish snooker player
• Euan McLean (born 1986), Scottish footballer
• Euan Norris (born 1977), Scottish football referee
• Euan Murray (born 1980), Scottish rugby union footballer
• Ewan MacDonald (born 1975), Scottish curler
• Ewan McGrady, Australian rugby league footballer
• Ewan Thompson (born 1977), Australian (Austalian rules) footballer

In politics

• Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes (born 1937), peer and politician
• Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (born 1923), British politician
• Euan McLeod, member of the Scottish Labour Party
• Euan Robson (born 1954), Scottish Liberal Democrats politician
• Euan Wallace (1892–1941), British Conservative politician
• Ewan Anderson (born 1938), expert on geopolitics, economic and social geography

In other fields

• Euan Mason, New Zealand forestry academic
• Euan Sutherland, Scottish businessman
• Ewan Birney (born 1972), British bioinformatician

Characters

• Euan Abercrombie, minor character from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Ewan, a character from the TV series Merlin Season 1 Episode 2
• Ewan O'Hara, Juliet O'Hara's brother on the TV series Psych
• Euan Pierce, the lead character from the TV series Off Centre
• Ewan, a guard in the book The Wizard's Child

See also

• Eógan
• Eógan (given name)
• Iwan (name)
• Evan
• MacEwen

References