Meaning not yet researched.
Owen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7,190 in 2025. Its best rank was #18 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #18 in 2022; #31 in 2025. About 99.5% of babies named Owen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#31 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #18.
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Owen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7,190 boys in 2025. Peak: #18 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 10,305 (2016).
In 2025, 7,190 US boys were named Owen, making it the 31st most common boys’ name of the year, down 5 places from #26 in 2024. That is 409 fewer than the 7,599 boys named Owen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #18, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10,305, in 2016. For comparison, it was #36 in 2015 and #341 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Owen in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 78 babies with the name. In all, 246,320 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 91,310 babies named Owen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 87,184 US boys were named Owen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 10,305. In 2025 that was about 1 in 238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Owen ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #10 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rowen (10,816 babies since 1880) and Eoin (1,604 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Owyn, Owynn and Owin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Owyn (853), Owynn (245), Owin (211), Owain (151), Owenn (73), Owan (19).
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 Owen 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 every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 38 | #10 | #40 |
| Iowa | 106 | #10 | #5 |
| New Hampshire | 56 | #10 | #3 |
| Massachusetts | 259 | #11 | #15 |
| Pennsylvania | 383 | #11 | #16 |
| Wisconsin | 192 | #12 | #2 |
| Vermont | 20 | #12 | #5 |
| Connecticut | 112 | #13 | #29 |
| Montana | 37 | #13 | #24 |
| Minnesota | 178 | #13 | #7 |
| Michigan | 260 | #14 | #10 |
| Colorado | 186 | #14 | #19 |
| Ohio | 335 | #15 | #8 |
| Maine | 38 | #16 | #2 |
| Utah | 126 | #18 | #10 |
| Virginia | 217 | #19 | #40 |
| Delaware | 27 | #19 | #28 |
| Illinois | 289 | #20 | #21 |
| North Dakota | 28 | #20 | #4 |
| Maryland | 134 | #21 | #34 |
| Missouri | 161 | #22 | #13 |
| West Virginia | 43 | #24 | #23 |
| Nebraska | 56 | #25 | #6 |
| New York | 422 | #25 | #38 |
| Idaho | 53 | #27 | #24 |
| Indiana | 169 | #27 | #11 |
| Kentucky | 116 | #28 | #35 |
| District of Columbia | 22 | #29 | #30 |
| Oregon | 87 | #29 | #16 |
| North Carolina | 243 | #30 | #44 |
| Washington | 166 | #31 | #17 |
| New Jersey | 200 | #33 | #49 |
| Arkansas | 62 | #35 | #53 |
| Louisiana | 84 | #37 | #30 |
| Wyoming | 11 | #37 | #28 |
| Oklahoma | 81 | #38 | #33 |
| Alaska | 16 | #38 | #7 |
| Tennessee | 154 | #39 | #45 |
| Alabama | 93 | #40 | #67 |
| South Carolina | 91 | #43 | #63 |
| South Dakota | 21 | #47 | #2 |
| Kansas | 58 | #53 | #9 |
| California | 604 | #57 | #63 |
| Georgia | 172 | #58 | #56 |
| Florida | 321 | #60 | #63 |
| Arizona | 114 | #62 | #60 |
| Nevada | 42 | #72 | #77 |
| Hawaii | 11 | #84 | #38 |
| New Mexico | 22 | #85 | #62 |
| Texas | 444 | #87 | #93 |
| Mississippi | 30 | #95 | #97 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,329 | 7,190 | #31 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,921 | 7,599 | #26 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,631 | 8,015 | #20 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,134 | 8,589 | #18 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,862 | 8,770 | #22 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,134 | 8,669 | #22 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,005 | 9,347 | #21 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,289 | 9,337 | #25 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,669 | 9,363 | #28 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,246 | 10,305 | #24 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,918 | 9,608 | #36 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,751 | 9,159 | #36 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,060 | 8,766 | #38 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,519 | 8,695 | #38 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,049 | 8,341 | #44 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,053 | 8,177 | #47 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,775 | 8,142 | #51 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,709 | 7,802 | #58 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,412 | 8,247 | #56 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,436 | 8,173 | #58 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,952 | 7,169 | #60 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,787 | 6,707 | #67 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,892 | 5,701 | #72 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,327 | 4,190 | #94 |
| 2001 | — | — | 3,032 | #130 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,797 | 2,715 | #145 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,971 | 2,377 | #153 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,872 | 1,872 | #179 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,290 | 1,368 | #224 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,005 | #277 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,920 | 701 | #350 |
| 1994 | — | — | 490 | #453 |
| 1993 | — | — | 457 | #462 |
| 1992 | — | — | 453 | #473 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,644 | 455 | #462 |
| 1990 | — | — | 480 | #453 |
| 1989 | — | — | 438 | #449 |
| 1988 | — | — | 467 | #417 |
| 1987 | — | — | 461 | #404 |
| 1986 | — | — | 408 | #428 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,263 | 412 | #422 |
| 1984 | — | — | 399 | #414 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,862 | 357 | #438 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,094 | 376 | #432 |
| 1981 | — | — | 381 | #429 |
| 1980 | — | — | 351 | #442 |
| 1979 | — | — | 371 | #412 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,934 | 271 | #491 |
| 1977 | — | — | 324 | #443 |
| 1976 | — | — | 277 | #475 |
| 1975 | — | — | 298 | #467 |
| 1974 | — | — | 337 | #428 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,118 | 337 | #427 |
| 1972 | — | — | 316 | #446 |
| 1971 | — | — | 248 | #518 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,716 | 238 | #524 |
| 1969 | — | — | 274 | #461 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,787 | 215 | #515 |
| 1967 | — | — | 228 | #497 |
| 1966 | — | — | 264 | #473 |
| 1965 | — | — | 273 | #471 |
| 1964 | — | — | 293 | #464 |
| 1963 | — | — | 280 | #475 |
| 1962 | — | — | 350 | #429 |
| 1961 | — | — | 353 | #424 |
| 1960 | — | — | 386 | #405 |
| 1959 | — | — | 385 | #405 |
| 1958 | — | — | 370 | #406 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,785 | 406 | #382 |
| 1956 | — | — | 400 | #371 |
| 1955 | — | — | 347 | #387 |
| 1954 | — | — | 402 | #362 |
| 1953 | — | — | 414 | #341 |
| 1952 | — | — | 455 | #326 |
| 1951 | — | — | 377 | #354 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,139 | 389 | #341 |
| 1949 | — | — | 369 | #352 |
| 1948 | — | — | 386 | #342 |
| 1947 | — | — | 406 | #339 |
| 1946 | — | — | 392 | #324 |
| 1945 | — | — | 369 | #308 |
| 1944 | — | — | 392 | #304 |
| 1943 | — | — | 418 | #300 |
| 1942 | — | — | 415 | #298 |
| 1941 | — | — | 412 | #286 |
| 1940 | — | — | 363 | #294 |
| 1939 | — | — | 383 | #283 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,226 | 406 | #274 |
| 1937 | — | — | 412 | #267 |
| 1936 | — | — | 385 | #276 |
| 1935 | — | — | 411 | #268 |
| 1934 | — | — | 435 | #259 |
| 1933 | — | — | 440 | #249 |
| 1932 | — | — | 444 | #256 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,828 | 456 | #252 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,589 | 513 | #245 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,333 | 526 | #236 |
| 1928 | — | — | 505 | #250 |
| 1927 | — | — | 552 | #238 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,451 | 554 | #238 |
| 1925 | — | — | 582 | #227 |
| 1924 | — | — | 634 | #213 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,528 | 587 | #224 |
| 1922 | — | — | 632 | #205 |
| 1921 | — | — | 703 | #195 |
| 1920 | — | — | 598 | #217 |
| 1919 | — | — | 556 | #221 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,783 | 591 | #212 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,471 | 489 | #224 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,984 | 488 | #219 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,802 | 479 | #216 |
| 1914 | — | — | 356 | #225 |
| 1913 | — | — | 293 | #216 |
| 1912 | — | — | 265 | #209 |
| 1911 | — | — | 156 | #196 |
| 1910 | — | — | 118 | #214 |
| 1909 | — | — | 90 | #233 |
| 1908 | — | — | 105 | #197 |
| 1907 | — | — | 104 | #195 |
| 1906 | — | — | 82 | #217 |
| 1905 | — | — | 89 | #196 |
| 1904 | — | — | 71 | #220 |
| 1903 | — | — | 83 | #192 |
| 1902 | — | — | 63 | #227 |
| 1901 | — | — | 80 | #182 |
| 1900 | — | — | 93 | #203 |
| 1899 | — | — | 66 | #201 |
| 1898 | — | — | 64 | #221 |
| 1897 | — | — | 70 | #203 |
| 1896 | — | — | 83 | #197 |
| 1895 | — | — | 75 | #195 |
| 1894 | — | — | 80 | #186 |
| 1893 | — | — | 80 | #184 |
| 1892 | — | — | 102 | #158 |
| 1891 | — | — | 73 | #180 |
| 1890 | — | — | 68 | #197 |
| 1889 | — | — | 75 | #181 |
| 1888 | — | — | 98 | #156 |
| 1887 | — | — | 68 | #184 |
| 1886 | — | — | 83 | #170 |
| 1885 | — | — | 70 | #188 |
| 1884 | — | — | 91 | #151 |
| 1883 | — | — | 63 | #189 |
| 1882 | — | — | 65 | #199 |
| 1881 | — | — | 67 | #174 |
| 1880 | — | — | 78 | #169 |
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).