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Lowen

About 1,227 American babies have been named Lowen since 1918, most of them around 2025. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,867th. About 1,200 Lowens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 3.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lowen boys named Lowen

Girls and boys called Lowen

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 520 girls and 707 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 127 to 84.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,227
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
3
Peak year
2025
Best rank
1,867th
Rank in 2025
1,867th
First recorded
1918
Girls / boys
520 / 707

How old the living Lowens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,227 babies given the name since 1918, about 1,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 1 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2022 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Lowen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lowen is most concentrated in Texas (3.3×), Ohio (2.5×), California (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Lowen peaked:

All the names of 2025

Lowen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Lowen +2 spellings 1,695 214th
England and Wales boys Lowen 853 363rd
England and Wales girls Lowen 121 2,138th
Belgium boys Lowen 90 516th
Switzerland boys Lowen 29 1,124th
Scotland boys Lowen 13 535th
Ireland boys Lowen 3 779th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Lowen: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Lowen 7 0.001% 1,188th
French boys Switzerland Lowen 22 0.005% 426th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Lowen: rank by region

In 2025, Lowen was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Lowen 642 8
Wallonia Lowen 394 6

In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lowen appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (319th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Lowen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.