Owain
Owain was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,407 among boys’ names; 151 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Owain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Owain mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Owain is “a male given name from Welsh, equivalent to English Owen.”
Borrowed from Welsh Owain. Doublet of Owen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Owain?
#10,407 among boys’ names, 2025
Owain fell from #9,339 in 2015 to #10,407 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
16 babies in 2008, the peak
Owain peaked in 2008, when 16 boys were given it, #5,692 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,407 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,535 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,766 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,449 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,465 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,446 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,339 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,966 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,427 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,686 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #11,800 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,692 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,595 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,555 | 4.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,711 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,511 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,985 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,103 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,557 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,348 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Owain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Owain has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Owain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Owain, and how old are they?
An estimated 149 Americans named Owain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 247,853 babies since 1880, Owain is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 7,267 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Owain
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Owain and names like it
- Compare Owain and OwenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sOwain peaked in 2008.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Owain: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Owain.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Owain alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.