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How popular is “Owen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Owen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Owen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Owen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Owen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Owen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Owen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Owen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 78 0.000387128 78 -100%
1881 67 0.000347712 67 -100%
1882 65 0.00029341 65 -100%
1883 63 0.000290395 63 -100%
1884 91 0.000373777 91 -100%
1885 70 0.000290633 70 -100%
1886 83 0.000325087 83 -100%
1887 68 0.000274867 68 -100%
1888 98 0.00032724 98 -100%
1889 75 0.000259564 75 -100%
1890 68 0.000225613 68 -100%
1891 73 0.000254646 73 -100%
1892 102 0.000305048 102 -100%
1893 80 0.000245985 80 -100%
1894 80 0.000236204 80 -100%
1895 75 0.000213663 75 -100%
1896 83 0.000232178 83 -100%
1897 70 0.000201754 70 -100%
1898 64 0.000167779 64 -100%
1899 66 0.000194556 66 -100%
1900 93 0.000206548 93 -100%
1901 80 0.00023134 80 -100%
1902 63 0.000162903 63 -100%
1903 83 0.000217733 83 -100%
1904 71 0.000175967 71 -100%
1905 89 0.000209944 89 -100%
1906 82 0.000191387 82 -100%
1907 104 0.000223468 104 -100%
1908 105 0.000214878 105 -100%
1909 90 0.000176048 90 -100%
1910 118 0.000199759 118 -100%
1911 156 0.000242132 156 -100%
1912 265 0.000268202 265 -100%
1913 293 0.000257671 293 -100%
1914 356 0.000251351 356 -100%
1915 484 0.000264131 5 479 -98%
1916 493 0.000254857 5 488 -98%
1917 495 0.000246668 6 489 -98%
1918 599 0.000275896 8 591 -97%
1919 556 0.000263477 556 -100%
1920 598 0.000264293 598 -100%
1921 703 0.000301135 703 -100%
1922 632 0.000276084 632 -100%
1923 592 0.000257114 5 587 -98%
1924 634 0.000266206 634 -100%
1925 582 0.000249432 582 -100%
1926 559 0.000243477 5 554 -98%
1927 552 0.000237997 552 -100%
1928 505 0.000223359 505 -100%
1929 535 0.000244051 9 526 -97%
1930 521 0.000234338 8 513 -97%
1931 461 0.000219066 5 456 -98%
1932 444 0.000210298 444 -100%
1933 440 0.000220061 440 -100%
1934 435 0.000209455 435 -100%
1935 411 0.00019666 411 -100%
1936 385 0.000185312 385 -100%
1937 412 0.000193366 412 -100%
1938 412 0.000186208 6 406 -97%
1939 383 0.000173819 383 -100%
1940 363 0.000157642 363 -100%
1941 412 0.0001691 412 -100%
1942 415 0.000151913 415 -100%
1943 418 0.000148093 418 -100%
1944 392 0.000145721 392 -100%
1945 369 0.000139093 369 -100%
1946 392 0.00012268 392 -100%
1947 406 0.000112705 406 -100%
1948 386 0.000111802 386 -100%
1949 369 0.000105889 369 -100%
1950 395 0.000112749 6 389 -97%
1951 377 0.000102342 377 -100%
1952 455 0.0001198 455 -100%
1953 414 0.000107431 414 -100%
1954 402 0.000100987 402 -100%
1955 347 0.000086424 347 -100%
1956 400 0.000097016 400 -100%
1957 411 0.000097807 5 406 -98%
1958 370 0.000089504 370 -100%
1959 385 0.000092593 385 -100%
1960 386 0.000092927 386 -100%
1961 353 0.000085218 353 -100%
1962 350 0.000086733 350 -100%
1963 279 0.000070487 279 -100%
1964 294 0.000075625 294 -100%
1965 273 0.000075301 273 -100%
1966 264 0.000075957 264 -100%
1967 228 0.00006716 228 -100%
1968 221 0.000065415 6 215 -95%
1969 274 0.000078842 274 -100%
1970 244 0.000067655 6 238 -95%
1971 248 0.000072254 248 -100%
1972 316 0.000100541 316 -100%
1973 343 0.000113693 6 337 -97%
1974 337 0.000110855 337 -100%
1975 298 0.000098695 298 -100%
1976 277 0.00009129 277 -100%
1977 324 0.000101999 324 -100%
1978 277 0.000087275 5 272 -96%
1979 371 0.000111512 371 -100%
1980 353 0.000102482 353 -100%
1981 381 0.000110136 381 -100%
1982 382 0.000108895 6 376 -97%
1983 363 0.000104812 6 357 -97%
1984 399 0.000114367 399 -100%
1985 418 0.000117116 6 412 -97%
1986 408 0.000114701 408 -100%
1987 462 0.000128134 462 -100%
1988 467 0.000126386 467 -100%
1989 439 0.000114191 439 -100%
1990 480 0.000121443 480 -100%
1991 461 0.000118349 6 455 -97%
1992 453 0.00011793 453 -100%
1993 458 0.000121476 458 -100%
1994 490 0.000131804 490 -100%
1995 707 0.000193056 6 701 -98%
1996 1005 0.000275554 1005 -100%
1997 1374 0.000378956 6 1368 -99%
1998 1880 0.000511119 8 1872 -99%
1999 2383 0.000645123 6 2377 -99%
2000 2722 0.000720124 7 2715 -99%
2001 3032 0.000809961 3032 -100%
2002 4201 0.001123775 11 4190 -99%
2003 5715 0.00150303 14 5701 -100%
2004 6735 0.001762663 28 6707 -99%
2005 7190 0.001870036 21 7169 -99%
2006 8183 0.002068405 11 8172 -100%
2007 8260 0.002066197 13 8247 -100%
2008 7825 0.001990757 25 7800 -99%
2009 8156 0.002134981 14 8142 -100%
2010 8187 0.002215254 10 8177 -100%
2011 8359 0.002285258 18 8341 -100%
2012 8715 0.002382862 20 8695 -100%
2013 8781 0.002408613 15 8766 -100%
2014 9181 0.002477083 23 9158 -99%
2015 9625 0.00260071 18 9607 -100%
2016 10328 0.002815168 26 10302 -99%
2017 9393 0.002626535 30 9363 -99%
2018 9360 0.002662194 25 9335 -99%
2019 9373 0.002700427 27 9346 -99%
2020 8692 0.002601946 25 8667 -99%
2021 8807 0.002599508 39 8768 -99%
2022 8610 0.002544977 26 8584 -99%
2023 8041 0.002428428 30 8011 -99%
2024 7595 0.002281808 21 7574 -99%

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