Owen

Where Owen comes from

From various origins. See below
— Wiktionary's entry for Owen
  • Welsh
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1879
    Owen Willans Richardson born
    British physicist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #168 among boys — 78 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1968
    Owen Wilson born
    American actor
  4. 2022
    Peak, #18
    8,589 babies named Owen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Welsh Owain.
  • A male given name from Irish, an anglicization of Irish Eoghan.
Namesakes
  • Owen Willans Richardson · British physicist, 1879–1959
  • Owen Wilson · American actor, born 1968
  • Owen Chamberlain · American physicist, 1920–2006
  • Owen Hargreaves · English association football player, born 1981
  • Owen Hart · Canadian wrestler, 1965–1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.