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Owen
Pronounced /ˈoʊɪn/
Rank in 2024
#26
Born in 2024
7,574
Peak year
2016 · #24
Origin
Irish, Welsh
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 7,574 boys were named Owen, about 1 in every 226.
- It peaked in 2016 with 10,302 babies, ranked #24.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 238,411 boys have been named Owen since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Owen per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 3.0Gen Z1997–12
- 4.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 9,400 babies, 0.56 per 1,000. Silent: 7,685 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,160 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,625 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,743 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Z: 92,705 babies, 2.95 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 107,481 babies, 4.95 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From various origins. See below:
- A male given name.
- A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Welsh Owain.
- A male given name from Irish, an anglicization of Irish Eoghan.
- A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] derived from the given name.
- Origin
- Irish, Welsh
- Say it
- /ˈoʊɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Owen, CC BY-SA 4.0.