Owen
Owen is ranked 26th among boys in 2024 (7,574 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 2022.
- Rank in 2024
- #26down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7,5740.44% of boys
- Peak year
- 201610,302 births
- Best rank
- #18in 2022
- Since 1880
- 238,411people given the name
The story in the numbers
238,411 boys have been named Owen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 10,302 births — 0.54% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 36 → 26).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 38%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Owen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 758 | |
| 1890s | 761 | |
| 1900s | 860 | |
| 1910s | 3,791 | |
| 1920s | 5,873 | |
| 1930s | 4,285 | |
| 1940s | 3,922 | |
| 1950s | 3,945 | |
| 1960s | 2,916 | |
| 1970s | 3,018 | |
| 1980s | 4,054 | |
| 1990s | 9,659 | |
| 2000s | 61,875 | |
| 2010s | 91,090 | |
| 2020s | 41,604 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Owen was the 24th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Owen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fisherpeak 2016
- Elijahpeak 2011
- Laytonpeak 2015
- Phineaspeak 2016
- Bostonpeak 2014
- Julianpeak 2017
- Malachipeak 2006
- Nehemiahpeak 2010
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.