Given name
Erwan
Erwan is a masculine given name from Breton. It is used in French and Breton.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Erwan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Erwan’s family of names
In Breton usage, Erwan has a diminutive in Erwanig. In Breton usage, Erwan has a conventional equivalent in the French form Yves. In Breton usage, Erwan has a related form in ERWANN.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Erwan
- Erwan BerthouFrench poet (1861–1933)
- Erwan KonatéFrench long jumperborn 2003
- Erwan KäserSwiss cross-country skierborn 1992
- Erwan QuintinFrench footballerborn 1984
- Erwan DianteillFrench anthropologistborn 1967
- Erwan BalanantFrench politicianborn 1971
- Erwan VallerieBreton nationalist1944–2022
- RoneFrench musicianborn 1980
- Erwan BastardFrench racing driver (born 1998)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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