Owen

girls:

622 births since 1915

#5094 (11th percentile)

boys:

230.8k births since 1880

#166 (96th percentile)

overall:

231.4k births since 1880

#344 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Owen".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
622
Peak Births
39
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
3.6%
Current Percentile
2.6%
Peak Rank
#559
Current Rank
#922
Female statistics
Total Births
230,786
Peak Births
10,302
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
98.2%
Current Percentile
98.0%
Peak Rank
#18
Current Rank
#19
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Owen

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Owen. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.2% confident that Owen is pronounced as OH-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-ihn, at 22.7% confidence.

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68.2%
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9.1%
OH-uhn (2 syllables)
Verified
68.2% confidence
OW1 AH0 N
OH-ihn (2 syllables)
22.7% confidence
OW1 IH0 N
OH-ehn (2 syllables)
9.1% confidence
OW1 EH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Owen. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Owen, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AY-oh-ihn (3 syllables)
3 names 1.7k births
EY1 OW0 IH0 N
ohn (1 syllable)
6 names 1.2k births
OW1 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like OW1 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.