Owens

#7,082 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Owens has been given to 745 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #7,082 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Owens, 2025

1 in 276,000

Owens over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Owens: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Owens means

Owens is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Owens is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 745 boys were recorded with the name Owens between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1921; its best national rank was #955 in 1896.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,537 in 2020 to #7,082 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,974 in 2015 to #7,082 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Owens?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 276,000; 12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 142,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,082; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 191,493 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Owens sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Owens. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Owenss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Owens was born before 1938 — so the typical Owens is around 87 today.

Median birth year: 1938; About 87 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 15.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 276; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (165).

Is Owens rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: +1,722; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +6,455; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −108; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 52.2%; Peak was 1921 (23)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #955; 1896

Spellings of Owens

Owens is not the most common spelling — Owen is, with 82.5% against Owens's 0.25%.

Owen82.5%245,644
Bowen4.4%13,187
Oren3.2%9,502
Rowen2.7%8,169
Olen2.6%7,665
Wes2.3%6,786
Jens0.82%2,456
Oden0.53%1,574

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Owens is used

Across 1910–2025, Owens was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 734,221 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Georgia1 in —
2South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Owens has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Owens around the world

Where Owens ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1992–2024
#3,748
in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Owens by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,082
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 6,455
Best rank ever: #955; 1896
Peak year: 1921; 23 that year
First recorded: 1890
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 745
Count in 2025: 12

Names similar to Owens

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Marvens Jens Athens Owenn Evens Kervens Yvens Dawens Stevens Juvens Carlens Clemens Rubens Lens Edens Stephens Jaydens Ewens Laurens Kerwens Valens Darlens Jaylens Aydens

Sibling names for Owens

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Marcelle Linnie Marjory Margarette Ione Lovie Ray Margret

For a brother

Antone Junius Hilton Haywood Harmon Arlie Alvis Cletus

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