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)
The name Owen is the #344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 231,408 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #166 (96.4% percentile) for all time with 230,786 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,094 (10.9% percentile) for all time with 622 births since 1915.
Owen has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Owen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Owen reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 98.2% percentile (ranked #18) with 4,578 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 5,086 births per million (ranked 97.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Owen ranks #19 for boys (98.0% percentile) with 4,361 births per million, which is 85.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Owen reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #902) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 22 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Owen ranks #922 for girls (2.6% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 78.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Owen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Owen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.2% confident that Owen is pronounced as OH-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-ihn, at 22.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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