Owen, the Anglicized form of the Welsh name Owain, is believed to come from the Greek name Eugenios (Eugene) and Greek word eugenes, meaning "well-born." Other theories suggest it's the Anglicized form of the Irish name Eoghan, which is derived from the Old Irish eó, meaning "yew," and gan, meaning "born." Owen has appeared on the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for boy names every year since 1900, but didn't crack the top-100 until 2002. It has now been a top-30 boy's name every year since 2016 and cracked the top-20 for the first time in 2022. It's also the name singer-songwriter Michelle Branch gave her firstborn son, born in 2005.
