Bowen

Meaning: Son of Owen
Origin: Welsh surname

Boy's name · #266 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Bowen is moving up the charts. First recorded in 1913, it stood at #266 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet; about 13,000 boys have been named Bowen along the way.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 44 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#189 in Canada (2025) · #329 in England & Wales (2025) · #350 in New Zealand (2025) · #395 in N. Ireland (2025) · #577 in Ireland (2025) · #762 in Scotland (2025) · #915 in Netherlands (2025) · #2,136 in Austria (2025) · #7,924 in Italy (2024) · #3,270 in Ecuador (2024) · #1,795 in Sweden (2021) · #3,780 in France (2020).

Famous Bowens

Bowen Yang — American comedian and actor (born 1990)
Bowen Byram — Canadian ice hockey player (born 2001)
Bowen Stassforth — American swimmer (1926–2019)
Bowen Zhou — Chinese computer scientist and entrepreneur
Bowen Wells — British politician (born 1935)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 79,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Elizabeth Bowen — Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist (1899–1973)
Mark Bowen — Welsh footballer (born 1963)
Jarrod Bowen — English footballer (born 1996)

What Bowens become

Among 33 notable people named Bowen:

Similar names: Sullivan · Bodie · Jensen · Boone · Cohen · Callan

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