Owen

58,962 people in the United States were counted with the surname Owen in the 2020 census, making it the 561st most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,069.

By the numbers

People: 58,962
Rank: 561st
How common: 1 in 5,069
Per 100,000: 19.7

Where the name comes from

From various origins. See below:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Owen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Owen

Robert Owen (1771–1858)Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer
Michael Owen (born 1976)English association football player
Richard Owen (1804–1892)English biologist and paleontologist
Clive Owen (born 1964)English actor
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)English poet and soldier
Mark Owen (born 1972)English singer-songwriter
Chris Owen (born 1980)American actor
David Owen (born 1938)British politician

People named Owen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Owen

Owens

Also a first name

Owen has been given to 246,320 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.