Owen

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Owen boys named Owen

By the numbers

Total US births

246,320

Estimated living today

224,000

Median age today

12

Peak year

2016

Best rank

24th

Rank in 2025

31st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

676 / 245,644

How old the living Owens are

born that year still alive today

Of the 246,320 babies given the name since 1880, about 224,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 155,000 of them are children and 5,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From various origins. See below:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Owens

• Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959)British physicist
• Owen Wilson (born 1968)American actor
• Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)American physicist
• Owen Hargreaves (born 1981)English association football player
• Owen Hart (1965–1999)Canadian wrestler
• Owen Arthur (1949–2020)Barbadian politician
• Owen D. Young (1874–1962)American businessman, lawyer, diplomat
• Owen K. Garriott (1930–2019)American electrical engineer and astronaut

People named Owen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Owen is most common

• CA19,321
• NY14,577
• OH13,322
• PA13,195
• TX11,400
• IL10,815
• MI10,009
• MA8,611
• FL7,746
• MN7,432

Relative to how many babies each state records, Owen is most concentrated in New Hampshire (2.5×), Vermont (2.1×), Utah (2.0×), Alaska (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular boys’ names the year Owen peaked:

• Noah
• Liam
• William
• Mason
• James
• Benjamin

All the names of 2016

Owen elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Owen: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Owen is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.10% of children were given it – 35 of them.

Owen: rank by region

In 2025, Owen was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Owen appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (42nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (57th), Province of East Flanders (58th), Province of Liège (63rd), Province of Namur (66th), Province of West Flanders (109th), Province of Antwerp (139th) and Brussels-Capital Region (187th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Owen by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Owen among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Owen lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 677 men called Owen were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Owen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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