Owings
loc · Latin script
Meaning: That which is owed; debt
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Owings is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 76K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 112K
- CNChina≈1 in 129K
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)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- 1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
That which is owed; debt.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Owings 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 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Owings | 3 |
| US United States | 4,381 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Owings | 293 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 43 | Owings | 36 |
| CA Canada | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Owings | 21 |
| RU Russia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Owings | 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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Lemon Owingsb. 1812UScompanion of Kit Carson (1812-1902)
- Lewis S. Owingsb. 1820USAmerican politician (1820–1875)
- Nathaniel A. Owingsb. 1903USAmerican architect
- George W. Owings Jr.b. 1907USAmerican politician (died 1984)
- George W. Owings IIIb. 1945USAmerican politician
- Micah Owingsb. 1982USAmerican baseball player
- Chris Owingsb. 1991USbaseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,630 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 43 | #55,819 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Owings mean, and where does it come from?
- That which is owed; debt. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Owings have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Owings in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled owings.
- Where is Owings most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Owings is densest in the United States — about 1 in 76 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Owings?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,381 people named Owings in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/owingsThe 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, “Owings”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.