Owen
Owen holds the #31 spot in the 2025 national count, drifting down from its high. The records carry it back to 1880, but its real era is now, 245,644 American children have carried it so far.
What Owen carries
Owen · Celtic
“lamb, or young warrior”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Owen’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Owen, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Owen since 1880
Owen peaked in 2016 at #24; #31 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Owen is most common
Among the states, Owen takes its largest share in Vermont, 1.65% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with New Hampshire and Rhode Island next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Owen
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
Ronan
#247 in 2025 · Celtic
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Arthur
#87 in 2025 · Celtic
Oaklynn
#153 in 2025
Browse: names starting with O · Celtic names · all names
About Owen
Where does Owen rank right now?
Owen holds the #31 spot in the 2025 national count, drifting down from its high. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Owen?
The gloss on record reads “lamb, or young warrior”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Owen?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Oscar, Evan and Connor, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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