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How popular is “Owens” in the USA?

Number of people named “Owens” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Owens” 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 “Owens” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Owens” by birth year

This chart shows how “Owens” 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
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 14 0.000009885 14 -100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 -100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 -100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 23 0.000009852 23 -100%
1922 20 0.000008737 20 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 18 0.000007558 18 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 23 0.000009917 23 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 -100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 -100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 14 0.000004017 14 -100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 -100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 -100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 -100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 -100%

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