Owen
332
Babies in 2024
-50%
10-year change
2002
Peak · 2.35k
-11%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Owen
Owen peaked among UK boys' names in the early 2000s (2,349 babies in 2002) and has remained in active use — 332 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Owen reached its peak in 2002, when 2,349 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #31 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 332 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 33,517 boys have been officially registered with the name Owen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 5,194 boys were registered with the name, starting from 663 in 2014 and ending at 332 in 2024.