Ewa
Ewa is a feminine given name in Eastern Europe and a feminine given name specifically in Poland, the Polish counterpart of English Eve or Latin Eva.
- Polish
- Swedish
Meaning & Origin of Ewa
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ewa is a feminine given name in Eastern Europe and a feminine given name specifically in Poland, the Polish counterpart of English Eve or Latin Eva.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Polish
- Swedish
The Story of Ewa
Ewa first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1963, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1992: 13 births, good for #6,652 nationwide. About 20% of every Ewa on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Ewa last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 296 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ewa
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Names that sound like Ewa
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About the name Ewa
Ewa is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1963 and has accumulated 296 births in the dataset. Ewa's peak popularity came in 1992 when it ranked #6,652. Use the chart and map above to compare Ewa's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.