Owyn
Owyn was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,778 among boys’ names; 853 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Owyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Owyn?
#5,778 among boys’ names, 2025
Owyn fell from #2,633 in 2015 to #5,778 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 9.4 per million.
53 babies in 2015, the peak
Owyn peaked in 2015, when 53 babies were given it (47 boys, #2,633 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,778 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,294 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,697 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,514 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,627 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,505 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,078 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,452 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,070 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 46 | #2,676 | 24.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,633 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,649 | 23.9 |
| 2013 | 48 | #2,553 | 25.4 |
| 2012 | 52 | #2,439 | 27.4 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,538 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,358 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,205 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,324 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,855 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,286 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,777 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,548 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,467 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,466 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,841 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,677 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,377 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,380 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Owyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 853 Americans recorded as Owyn, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Owyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Owyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 845 Americans named Owyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 690 people named Owyn (77 women and girls, 613 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 667 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 247,853 babies since 1880, Owyn is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 7,267 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Owyn
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 Owyn and names like it
- Compare Owyn and OwenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOwyn peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Owyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Owyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Owyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.