Owens

At the 2020 census, 175,160 Americans bore the surname Owens — 143rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,706.

By the numbers

People: 175,160
Rank: 143rd
How common: 1 in 1,706
Per 100,000: 58.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.4%
Black, not Hispanic 27.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Owens

Jesse Owens (1913–1980)American track and field athlete
Candace Owens (born 1989)American political commentator
Kevin Owens (born 1984)Canadian professional wrestler
Buck Owens (1929–2006)American country singer-songwriter
Terrell Owens (born 1973)American football player
Delia Owens (born 1949)American author and zoologist
Ryan Owens (born 1995)British cyclist
Billy Owens (born 1969)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Owens

Owen

Also a first name

Owens has been given to 745 American babies as a first name since 1890, peaking in 1921. 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.