Owen

What Owen means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Owen yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Owen?

US: Rising: up from #36 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #101 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 10,305 boys got the name (#24 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 238 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 913 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 418 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (16.5 per 1,000 boys), NH (12.43 per 1,000 boys), RI (12.16 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Owen is #31 in the US and #170 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.5% of US babies named Owen were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ewan120 US · 84 E&W
• Owain7 US · 18 E&W
• Ewen19 US · 3 E&W
• Iwan0 US · 10 E&W
• Owin9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Owen

Boys

• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Lochlan#644Editor’s note Up from #841 in 2015 to #644 in 2025 in the US
• Ayden#257Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025

For a sister

• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Alayna#332Editor’s note Down from #223 in 2015 to #332 in 2025 in the US
• Teagan#340Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1979, with 6 babies
• Fiona#470“fair, white”^*
• Kenna#759“descendant of Cionaodh”^*
• Brynn#407Editor’s note Down from #259 in 2015 to #407 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Owen’s. Rank is US 2025.