The OWENS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	176,334	126	0.065	654
United States (1880 census)	34,551	148	0.069	691
Change since 1880	+141783	+22	-0.004	-37
Other Countries
Australia	2,595	608	0.016	159
United Kingdom	14,453	410	0.031	315

Top States for OWENS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	13,707	163	0.066	657
California	10,478	294	0.031	309
Florida	10,385	147	0.065	650
South Carolina	9,317	39	0.232	2,322
North Carolina	8,845	85	0.110	1,099
Top States for OWENS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	9,317	39	0.232	2,322
Alabama	7,752	58	0.174	1,743
Tennessee	7,844	76	0.138	1,379
Arkansas	3,234	78	0.121	1,210
Kentucky	4,874	82	0.121	1,206

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OWENS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OWENS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OWENS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OWENS by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OWENS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OWENS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the OWENS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of OWENS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	547	0.31
White (Caucasian)	120,066	68.09
Black/African American	49,127	27.86
Mixed Race	2,980	1.69
White (Hispanic)	2,381	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	1,252	0.71

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OWENS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to OWENS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OWENS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.