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How popular is the name Owen?
Births per year, rank history and how many Owens are alive today.
Owen (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 170th in 2025 with 298 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2002, when 2,349 babies were given the name, the 31st most popular that year. Owen fell out of the published rankings after 1924 and returned in 1994, a classic revival pattern. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 81,000 babies have been named Owen in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Owen you are most likely to meet is around 23 years old. Half of all Owens born in England and Wales are between 20 and 53, and there are at least 60,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly an 18% chance that at least one of them will be called Owen.
How many babies are named Owen each year?
Where does Owen rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Owen most popular?
Owen peaked in 2002, when 2,349 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Owen?
At least 60,000 people named Owen born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Owen?
Most living Owens are between 20 and 53; the most common age is about 23.
Is Owen becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.