Ewald
A Germanic name meaning "powerful in the law". About a thousand Polish men carry it and no boys have been given it in years, so most Poles will never meet an Ewald.
Ewald Pronunciation
Ewald is pronounced E-vahlt (/ˈɛvalt/).
What Ewald means
Where Ewald comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ewald comes from Germanic roots that pair "ewa," meaning law, with "walt," the element for rule and power. Together they give the sense recorded on Polish name lists as władca prawa, one powerful in the law. The name belongs to the German cultural world, and it travelled where German speakers settled, including parts of Silesia and Pomerania.
Two brothers carry the oldest fame here. The Two Ewalds were Anglo-Saxon missionaries who crossed into Old Saxony and were killed there around 695. The Church remembers them together on 3 October, distinguishing one as Ewald the Black and the other as Ewald the White by the colour of their hair. So the imieniny falls in early autumn.
There are no standard Polish diminutives for it. Ewald stays whole on the school register, a compact five-letter block that a teacher reads without trimming. The meaning stays legible too: someone strong in law, władca prawa.
How many people are named Ewald
1 in 20486 men in Poland is named Ewald. 1,042 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #943 among male names.
Ewald as a middle name
Ewald is a first name for 1,042 men in Poland and a middle name for another 532, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 311th, between Mario (534) and Georg (531).
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537Apolinary
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534Mario
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311532Ewald
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531Georg
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529Simon