Oweñs
surname · Latin script
Oweñs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the given name Owen + the patronymic suffix -s.
- GRGreece≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.7K
- USUnited States1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #506 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 572 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Owens in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the given name Owen + the patronymic suffix -s.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oweñs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Owens | 27 |
| US United States | #121 | 182,719 | 1 in 1.8K | 183K | Owens | 572 |
| GB United Kingdom | #199 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 18K | Owens | 250 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Owens | 18 |
| IT Italy | #250 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Owens | 28 |
| GR Greece | #102 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Owens | 20 |
| IE Ireland | #122 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Owens | 102 |
| NZ New Zealand | #178 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 41 | Owens | 106 |
| IS Iceland | #230 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 10 | Owens | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oweñs mean, and where does it come from?
- From the given name Owen + the patronymic suffix -s. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Oweñs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 500 thousand people named Oweñs in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled owens.
- How common is the name Oweñs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182,719 people named Oweñs in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Oweñs compared with other names?
- In Greece, Oweñs is the 102nd most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/owe%C3%B1sThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oweñs” — the 102nd most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.