Bowens

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bowens is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In St. Vincent & Grenadines it is the 27th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 2.4K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 3.9K
  • AUAustralia1 in 4.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈81K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
463 ●

872K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 291 ◐

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Spellings & scripts●

BowenLatin · English●782K records
โบเวนThai · Thai●62 records

Locally spelled Bowen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 18 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bowens is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#31578,822727K rec.1 in 4.2K79KBowen463
GB United Kingdom#32059,17150K rec.—5Bowen220
AU Australia#37920,52321K rec.—3Bowen182
CA Canada#38814,99415K rec.—28Bowen150
IT Italy#6303,7963.9K rec.——Bowen26
DE Germany—3,0803.2K rec.——Bowen77
JM Jamaica#681,9952.1K rec.——Bowen24
SG Singapore#3171,9592.2K rec.——Bowen26
RU Russia—1,9572.1K rec.——Bowen19
NZ New Zealand#3201,6691.6K rec.—13Bowen70
IE Ireland#6971,6241.7K rec.——Bowen63
EG Egypt—925951 rec.——Bowen12

Roughly 79K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 4.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English86K86%
  • 3.5K4%
  • Spanish3.1K3%
  • German7041%
  • French6141%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English85,53086%
3,4834%
Spanish3,1153%
German7041%
French6141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bowens is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname67 records spelled Bowens5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Боуэнс

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Tom Bowens, b. 1940Malick Bowens, b. 1941Lisa Marie Bowens, b. 1950Kabuya Pamela Bowens-Saffo, b. 1957Tim Bowens, b. 1973David Bowens, b. 1977Anthony Bowens, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Bowens
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.2K#3,861
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.8K#3,916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.3K#3,945
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025349#52
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—36#131,575
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—15#4,360
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520253#622
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#312,582
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)20252#113
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 202620261#181
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bowens?
We estimate roughly 81 thousand people bear Bowens (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Bowens have the most bearers?
We estimate about 79 thousand people bear Bowens in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bowen.
Where is Bowens most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bowens is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 291 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Bowens compared with other names?
In the United States, Bowens is the 315th most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bowens” — the 315th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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