Given name & surname · also Germanic
Ewald
“a powerful man”
Ewald is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a powerful man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a powerful man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
Its Germanic formation brings together éo (“law, right”) and wald (“rule”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1884. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ewald through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 922
- 922 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 60 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 10 in 1957. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 60 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 395 as a first name in 2020; 4,475 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ewald’s family of names
In Polish usage, Ewald has a diminutive in Ewaldek. In German usage, Ewald shares a linguistic root with the Lithuanian form EVALDAS. In Polish usage, Ewald has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Evaldo.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ewald has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
5 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Ewald
- Ewald HeringGerman physiologist (1834–1918)
- Ewald Georg von KleistGerman physicist and bishop (1700-1748)
- Ewald Christian von KleistGerman poet and noble (1715-1759)
- Ewald LienenGerman association football player and managerborn 1953
- E. A. Dupontfilm director (1891-1956)
- Ewald Balseractor (1898-1978)
- Ewald Friedrich von HertzbergPrussian politician (1725-1795)
- Ewald CebulaPolish footballer (1917–2004)
- Ewald AmmendeBaltic German journalist, human rights activist and politician (1893-1936)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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