Bowen

Where Bowen comes from

From Welsh ap Owain (“son of Owen”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Bowen
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1926
    Bowen Stassforth born
    American swimmer
  3. 1990
    Bowen Yang born
    Chinese-American comedian
  4. 2025
    Peak, #266
    1,292 babies named Bowen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Bowen Yang · Chinese-American comedian, born 1990
  • Bowen Stassforth · American swimmer, 1926–2019
  • Bowen Byram · Canadian ice hockey player, born 2001
  • Bowen Wells · British politician, born 1935

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.