Meaning not yet researched.
Lowen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 127 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,639 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 60% of babies named Lowen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,639 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lowen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 127 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,639 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 127 (2025).
In 2025, 127 US girls were named Lowen, making it the 1,639th most common girls’ name of the year, up 411 places from #2,050 in 2024. That is 32 more than the 95 girls named Lowen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,639, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 127. For comparison, it was #11,485 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 84 US boys were named Lowen, making it the 1,883rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 95 places from #1,978 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 79 boys named Lowen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,883, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #5,193 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lowen in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 1,227 US babies have been given the name, 42% of them girls and 58% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 786 babies named Lowen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US girls were named Lowen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,656 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lowen ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #545 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Lowyn, Lowene and Lowan are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lowyn (73), Lowene (6), Lowan (5).
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 Lowen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #545 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #797 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #880 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #919 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,374 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,531 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,593 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,868 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,639 | 84 | #1,883 |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,050 | 79 | #1,978 |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,030 | 62 | #2,283 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,103 | 52 | #2,607 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,205 | 51 | #2,573 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,837 | 25 | #4,098 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,592 | 32 | #3,535 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,414 | 26 | #4,065 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,004 | 42 | #2,868 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,236 | 32 | #3,491 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,485 | 18 | #5,193 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,895 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,096 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,406 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,580 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,336 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,071 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,741 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,417 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,251 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,060 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,480 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,872 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,739 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,275 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,294 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,861 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,967 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,187 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,520 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,943 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,900 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,887 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,661 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,777 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,988 |
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).