Comments for the name Owen (1)

I can only hear Luke call for Uncle Owen in Star Wars.

I like the name Owen for a boy. It has increased in popularity but isn't over used.

Singer/musician Michelle Branch has a daughter named Owen.

Owen is the name of the main character in 'A Prayer For Owen Meany'. Nice, weird book. :3

I really like this name. It's cute for a little boy. And very mature and strong for an adult.

Owen Davies is the adoptive father of Bran ap Pendragon in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence.

I think it's very nice.

This is one of Kel's friends in Tamora Pierce (I think) 's books, "Protector of the Small."

I love the name Owen. I love the Arthurian Legend connotations as well. :)

The late Owen Hart, youngest of Stu Hart's wrestling family, is a famous bearer.

Nice name. Can also be "Bowen", a Welsh surname meaning obviously, 'son of Owen'. I much prefer Bowen!

Owen Harper, a rather promiscuous doctor on the television show (and Doctor Who spin-off) Torchwood.

I rather like this name. I sounds so sane and normal compared to some of the crap people come up with or suddenly start liking. It sounds mature and dignified enough for a grown-up, and a guy named Owen won't be discriminated against because of his name, unlike some guys named LeShaun or DaQuan sure will. It's too damn popular for my taste, but it's a nice enough name. It doesn't even remind me of annoying frat boys.

This name sounds so dumb. It's like people are just trying to be dumb when they name their kids this. It sounds really stupid.

I like this name. Even though it's overused now, it certainly sounds more mature, in my opinion, than a lot of the crap that some people name their sons. However, I don't like the Owen Wilson association.

This is currently my favorite name for a boy. It's not harsh-sounding, but neither is it unisex. A boy can carry the name all throughout his adulthood.

In my opinion, the name Owen fits a kind, happy-go-lucky sort of guy. A guy who's always smiling and laughing, and laid back. For some reason, the name Owen reminds me of a blonde guy; or maybe a guy with dirty-blonde or strawberry-blonde hair.

There is a character named Dr Owen Hunt on 'Grey's Anatomy'. Prior to that, I always thought of Owen as a little kid name, but now I think that it works well for an adult too.

Sir Owen Meredith Tudor (c1400-1461) was a Welsh soldier and courtier, son of a prince, who founded the Tudor dynasty which was to produce such notable royals as King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.

This is the best name I have ever seen in my life.

Cute for a boy yet great for a man. It's quite nice. :)

A famous bearer is King Owen the Irish King. Also, my name is Owen and it means "Born To Nobility".

I like the name Owen. It's a cute name for a little boy but at the same time a handsome and strong name for a man. I think I would use it as a middle name, though, rather than a first. There are just so many little Owens running around now.

I've concluded that Owen means "a youth well-born of the yew tree." All its meanings have to do with birth and age.

Owen's a handsome name. It's really cute on a little boy, but not to the point where you can't imagine it on an old man.

If I am not mistaken, Cass Elliot from The Mamas and the Papas had a daughter named Owen.

Owen is my maiden name and up until recently it was the only part of my name I liked. I often wished I'd been born a boy so that I could simply be called "Owen" because I liked it so much and hated my given name even more so.
As a child I resolved that my first son would have either the first or middle name of Owen.
As it turned out, the name my husband had always wanted for a boy worked beautifully with Owen, so my son's name was set 5 years before he was even conceived.

Due to my health he is likely the only child that I will ever have and I am grateful that I was able to pass on the name in a way. If he'd been a girl I was considering Owena, Olwen, and Rowena just to try and get it in there, but they never felt right.
He's still young, but so far seems to like his name. I hope he ends up being the sort that loves his name and is proud of it (both his first name and middle name) rather than being like me and being stuck hating my name yet never finding a nickname that felt right either.

I love this name so much that I sometimes regret not hyphenating my name, but my given name and married surname both end in -en as well. So, it would be disasterous.

I've hated this name ever since people started calling me Owen Wilson because I happen to look like him (except the nose of course). I don't like him or his movies, and the name Owen always brings me back to the actor. And I can't see the connection between this name and a girl, despite people naming their daughters Owen.