# Owen (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/owen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Welsh |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈoʊɪn/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 246,320 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 245,644 / 676 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 33,815, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From various origins. See below

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 7,049 |
| 2012 | 20 | 6,519 |
| 2013 | 15 | 8,060 |
| 2014 | 23 | 5,751 |
| 2015 | 18 | 6,918 |
| 2016 | 26 | 5,246 |
| 2017 | 30 | 4,669 |
| 2018 | 25 | 5,289 |
| 2019 | 27 | 5,005 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,134 |
| 2021 | 39 | 3,862 |
| 2022 | 26 | 5,134 |
| 2023 | 30 | 4,631 |
| 2024 | 21 | 5,921 |
| 2025 | 33 | 4,329 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8,341 | 44 |
| 2012 | 8,695 | 38 |
| 2013 | 8,766 | 38 |
| 2014 | 9,159 | 36 |
| 2015 | 9,608 | 36 |
| 2016 | 10,305 | 24 |
| 2017 | 9,363 | 28 |
| 2018 | 9,337 | 25 |
| 2019 | 9,347 | 21 |
| 2020 | 8,669 | 22 |
| 2021 | 8,770 | 22 |
| 2022 | 8,589 | 18 |
| 2023 | 8,015 | 20 |
| 2024 | 7,599 | 26 |
| 2025 | 7,190 | 31 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 943 | 71 |
| 2012 | 839 | 78 |
| 2013 | 708 | 85 |
| 2014 | 663 | 92 |
| 2015 | 621 | 101 |
| 2016 | 586 | 113 |
| 2017 | 489 | 121 |
| 2018 | 506 | 118 |
| 2019 | 455 | 124 |
| 2020 | 418 | 132 |
| 2021 | 384 | 149 |
| 2022 | 367 | 145 |
| 2023 | 373 | 140 |
| 2024 | 332 | 155 |
| 2025 | 298 | 170 |

## People named Owen

- Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist (1879–1959)
- Owen Wilson, American actor (born 1968)
- Owen Chamberlain, American physicist
- Owen Hargreaves, English association football player
- Owen Arthur, Barbadian politician (1949-2020)
- Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (1965-1999)
- Owen D. Young, American businessman, lawyer, diplomat (1874–1962)
- Owen K. Garriott, American electrical engineer and astronaut (1930-2019)
- John Owen Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013 to 2017
- Owen Cooper, English actor (born 2009)
- Owen Teague, American actor
- Owen Barfield, British philosopher

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.