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The owen Surname

owen Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh: from the Welsh personal name Owain, probably a borrowing in Roman times of Latin Eugenius (see Eugene), but possibly of more ancient Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic Eoghan.
  2. Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’ (see McEwen).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of owen Families in the US in 1920
Number of owen families
 346-689
 116-345		 1-115
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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