How common is the surname Owings?

4,381 people in the United States had the surname Owings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,474 Americans. It ranked 7,585th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Owings getting more or less common?

More common. 4,328 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,381 in 2010, up 1.2%.

The surname Owings

A surname, carried by 4,381 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Owings is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

Variant of Owens.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,381 people named Owings in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,474 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,328.

#7,585

rank among US surnames

4,381

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.2%

change since 2000 (was #7,118)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,580	Mars	4,384	70,426
#7,582	Vanhouten	4,383	70,442
#7,584	Wilfong	4,382	70,458
#7,585	Eidson	4,381	70,474
#7,589	Curcio	4,380	70,490
#7,591	Simmonds	4,379	70,506

Who is named Owings

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

91% of people named Owings identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Owings

Owings has the Soundex code O520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O520.

Questions

Where does the surname Owings come from?: Variant of Owens.
How common is the surname Owings?: 4,381 people in the United States had the surname Owings in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,474 Americans. It ranked 7,585th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Owings?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Owings identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Owings getting more or less common?: More common. 4,328 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,381 in 2010, up 1.2%.