Eoin
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eoin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ireland, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Irish form of John, presumably from Latin Johannes.
- IEIreland1 in 462◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 30K
- AUAustralia1 in 40K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 221 ●
- 1 in 219K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
18K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ones in TH Thailand, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 1 more and Onn in MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Irish form of John, presumably from Latin Johannes.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #62 | 20,207 | 5.5K rec. | — | 88 | Eoin | 142 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,822 | 2.9K rec. | — | 27 | Eoin | 143 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,931 | 2.6K rec. | — | 3 | Eoin | 107 |
| US United States | — | 1,519 | 5K rec. | 1 in 219K | 1.5K | Eoin | 221 |
| CA Canada | — | 460 | 249 rec. | — | 2 | Eoin | 53 |
| FR France | — | 276 | 223 rec. | — | listed | Eoin | 78 |
| DE Germany | — | 191 | 170 rec. | — | — | Eoin | 34 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 174 | 91 rec. | — | — | Eoin | 31 |
| TH Thailand | — | 137 | 141 rec. | — | #1,039,561 | Ones | 29 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 100 | 160 rec. | — | — | Onn | 19 |
| RU Russia | — | 45 | 51 rec. | — | — | Eoin | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 232K | 44 | Eoin | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English34K86%
- Spanish8512%
- French5671%
- German4391%
- Portuguese3301%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 34,042 | 86% |
| Spanish | 851 | 2% |
| French | 567 | 1% |
| German | 439 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 330 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Eoin is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic form of John.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Gaelic form of JOHN , used especially to designate the saints of that name. It is also in secular use, especially in Ireland, but also in Scotland (Eòin), where it tends to be Anglicized as JONATHAN .
as a word
In gv, a male given name, equivalent to English John
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, John (any of several people in the Bible).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 16 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 21 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 25 |
| 1999 | 42 |
| 2000 | 38 |
| 2001 | 55 |
| 2002 | 45 |
| 2003 | 63 |
| 2004 | 44 |
| 2005 | 47 |
| 2006 | 52 |
| 2007 | 56 |
| 2008 | 55 |
| 2009 | 47 |
| 2010 | 40 |
| 2011 | 52 |
| 2012 | 44 |
| 2013 | 51 |
| 2014 | 54 |
| 2015 | 58 |
| 2016 | 55 |
| 2017 | 45 |
| 2018 | 56 |
| 2019 | 56 |
| 2020 | 75 |
| 2021 | 57 |
| 2022 | 55 |
| 2023 | 52 |
| 2024 | 34 |
| 2025 | 45 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Eoin MacNeillb. 1867IEIrish politician and scholar (1867-1945)
- Eoin O'Duffyb. 1892IEIrish political activist, soldier and police commissioner (1890–1944)
- Eoin Handb. 1946IEIrish footballer and manager
- Eoin McNameeb. 1961GBIrish writer
- Eoin McCarthyb. 1963IEIrish actor
- Eoin Colferb. 1965IEIrish author of children's books (born 1965)
- Eoin Mooreb. 1968DEGerman film director
- Eoin Jessb. 1970GBScottish footballer (born 1970)
- Eoin Mackenb. 1983IEIrish actor, model, author and director
- Eoin Morganb. 1986GBIrish-English cricketer (born 1986)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 240 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eoin?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Eoin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eoin have the most bearers?
- Eoin is most frequently recorded in Ireland, where it is most often spelled eoin.
- How common is Eoin compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Eoin is the 62nd most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
- Is Eoin a male or female name?
- Eoin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Eoin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Irish form of John, presumably from Latin Johannes.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eoin” — the 62nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.