Meaning not yet researched.
Bowen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,292 in 2025. Its best rank was #266 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Bowen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#266 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Bowen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,292 boys in 2025. Peak: #266 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,292 (2025).
In 2025, 1,292 US boys were named Bowen, making it the 266th most common boys’ name of the year, up 55 places from #321 in 2024. That is 215 more than the 1,077 boys named Bowen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #266, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,292. For comparison, it was #517 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bowen in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 13,513 US babies have been given the name, 2.4% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,964 babies named Bowen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,513 US boys were named Bowen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,292. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,322 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bowen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #126 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bow, Bowyn and Bowan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bow (265), Bowyn (258), Bowan (123), Bowin (42).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bowen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 25 | #126 | #425 |
| Louisiana | 39 | #127 | #275 |
| Idaho | 20 | #128 | — |
| South Dakota | 10 | #128 | — |
| Utah | 38 | #136 | #277 |
| Oklahoma | 34 | #137 | #710 |
| South Carolina | 40 | #140 | #347 |
| West Virginia | 14 | #141 | #266 |
| Iowa | 28 | #149 | #295 |
| Maine | 8 | #155 | — |
| Nebraska | 17 | #167 | #220 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #171 | — |
| Minnesota | 38 | #175 | #724 |
| Arkansas | 21 | #177 | #554 |
| Montana | 7 | #178 | — |
| Kentucky | 31 | #183 | #384 |
| Georgia | 65 | #189 | #392 |
| Kansas | 21 | #190 | #312 |
| Tennessee | 46 | #198 | #458 |
| Missouri | 35 | #204 | #373 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #208 | — |
| North Carolina | 58 | #213 | #508 |
| Colorado | 29 | #224 | #483 |
| Indiana | 36 | #230 | #726 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #236 | #484 |
| Virginia | 34 | #253 | #545 |
| Michigan | 38 | #266 | #768 |
| Ohio | 46 | #269 | #534 |
| Washington | 27 | #273 | #643 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #281 | #392 |
| Oregon | 15 | #283 | #381 |
| Illinois | 37 | #291 | #1,085 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #298 | #396 |
| Alabama | 18 | #302 | #719 |
| Texas | 124 | #305 | #393 |
| Florida | 55 | #356 | #915 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #385 | #636 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #469 | #986 |
| Maryland | 9 | #524 | #534 |
| Arizona | 13 | #533 | #903 |
| California | 48 | #609 | #698 |
| New York | 24 | #622 | #652 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,993 | 1,292 | #266 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,404 | 1,077 | #321 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,149 | 941 | #349 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,338 | 820 | #390 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,527 | 889 | #368 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,895 | 778 | #395 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,211 | 709 | #433 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,817 | 709 | #429 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,693 | 660 | #459 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,312 | 638 | #481 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,683 | 557 | #517 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,557 | 492 | #563 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,178 | 430 | #590 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,203 | 391 | #620 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,324 | 315 | #722 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,469 | 165 | #1,128 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,748 | 128 | #1,349 |
| 2008 | — | — | 129 | #1,335 |
| 2007 | — | — | 174 | #1,071 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,555 | 138 | #1,216 |
| 2005 | — | — | 144 | #1,133 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,464 | 120 | #1,252 |
| 2003 | — | — | 129 | #1,160 |
| 2002 | — | — | 100 | #1,326 |
| 2001 | — | — | 105 | #1,266 |
| 2000 | — | — | 116 | #1,176 |
| 1999 | — | — | 102 | #1,228 |
| 1998 | — | — | 101 | #1,217 |
| 1997 | — | — | 92 | #1,254 |
| 1996 | — | — | 58 | #1,657 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,957 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,087 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,713 |
| 1992 | — | — | 26 | #2,680 |
| 1991 | — | — | 31 | #2,300 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,494 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,296 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,728 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,569 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,904 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,364 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,624 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,934 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #3,991 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,142 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,543 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,025 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,896 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,924 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,484 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,269 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,589 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,741 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,494 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,009 |
| 1970 | — | — | 12 | #2,751 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,886 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,400 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,024 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,012 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,270 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,645 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,686 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,675 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,130 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,093 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,547 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,583 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #2,973 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,168 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,130 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,512 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,053 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,516 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,554 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,142 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,168 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,541 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,670 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #2,940 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,274 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,511 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,369 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,223 |
| 1918 | — | — | 10 | #2,712 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,601 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,551 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,874 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).