Find out how popular the last name Ewald is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Ewald.

Ewald, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Ewald surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Ewald in America

Ewald is the 7348th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Ewald surname appeared 4,535 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 people would have the surname Ewald.

We can also compare 2010 data for Ewald to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Ewald

The surname Ewald originates from Germany, with roots dating back to the 8th century. It is a German habitational name derived from the Old German words "aw" meaning "river" and "wald" meaning "forest," suggesting it belonged to someone living near a river forest.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Ewald appears in the Codex Diplomaticus, a collection of historic documents from the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dated around the 12th century. The name is also found in the Hirsau Codex, a medieval manuscript from the Hirsau Abbey in the Black Forest region of Germany, circa 1100.

In the 13th century, the name Ewald was documented in the Liber Censuum, an important papal record of properties and revenues. This suggests the name had spread to other parts of Europe by this time.

One of the earliest known bearers of the name was Ewald the White, a Benedictine monk and missionary who lived in the 7th century. He was martyred in Westphalia, Germany, in 695 while attempting to convert the Saxons to Christianity.

Another notable figure was Johannes Ewald (1743-1781), a Danish poet and dramatist who was a leading figure in the Danish Enlightenment. His works, such as the tragedy "Rolf Krage" and the comedy "The Fishers," were highly influential in Danish literature.

In the 19th century, Carl Anton Ewald (1856-1908) was a German chemist and professor at the University of Berlin. He made significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry and is known for the Ewald reaction, a method for synthesizing unsaturated ketones.

Friedrich Heinrich Ewald (1853-1945) was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the Ewald sphere construction, a technique used in the study of crystallography and solid-state physics.

Another prominent figure was Paul Ewald (1888-1985), a German-born American crystallographer and physicist. He made important contributions to the theory of X-ray diffraction and the study of crystal structures.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Ewald

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Ewald.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Ewald was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Ewald has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Ewald was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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