Entry № 3033 · Old English origin

Eowyn Eowyn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-oh-win /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old English
Meaning
"Horse joy (Tolkien's shieldmaiden of Rohan)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Old English)

A name that means "horse joy (tolkien's shieldmaiden of rohan)".

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Later wedded Faramir, Steward of Gondor.

Horse joy (Tolkien's shieldmaiden of Rohan) — a Old English name.

The name in its native script.

Éowyn
Transliteration
Éowyn
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.oʊ.wɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eowyn stands.

Eowyn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eowyns before her.

Real people
Eowyn
Tolkien Old English invention.
In fiction
Éowyn
The Lord of the Rings.
1954

Names connected to Eowyn.

The number behind Eowyn.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eowyn reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.