Owens
Owens was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,082 among boys’ names; 745 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Owens by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Owens?
#7,082 among boys’ names, 2025
Owens fell from #6,974 in 2015 to #7,082 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 7.0 per million.
23 babies in 1921, the peak
Owens peaked in 1921, when 23 boys were given it, #1,632 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,082 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,804 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,096 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,606 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,565 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,536 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,521 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,772 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,728 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,974 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,883 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,080 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,720 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,504 | 5.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,986 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,994 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,955 | 3.4 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,350 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,725 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,510 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,580 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,785 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,294 | 4.6 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,001 | 4.5 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,799 | 4.8 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,568 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,825 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,348 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,744 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,417 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,895 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,080 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,038 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,617 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,292 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,089 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #4,053 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,128 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,503 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,352 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,589 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,159 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,884 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,067 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,282 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,406 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,287 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,888 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,081 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,104 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,572 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,815 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,433 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,602 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,948 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,844 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,798 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,632 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,686 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,551 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,951 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,096 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,810 | 18.4 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,632 | 20.9 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,311 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,038 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,040 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,882 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,500 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,573 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,752 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,719 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,845 | 20.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,000 | 57.1 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,028 | 53.2 |
| 1896 | 7 | #955 | 58.5 |
| 1890 | 6 | #969 | 54.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Owens a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Owens has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Owens: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Owens, and how old are they?
An estimated 285 Americans named Owens and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 11 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 439 people named Owens (49 women and girls, 390 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 280 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Owens
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 Owens and names like it
- Compare Owens and MurryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOwens peaked in 1921.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Owens since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Owens.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Owens alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.