Owen may refer to:
Origin: The name Owen is of
Irish and
Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
origin.
Its meanings range from noble, youthful, and well-born.
Gender: Owen is historically the masculine form of the name. Popular feminine variations include Eowyn and Owena. Pronunciation: OH-en
People and fictional characters
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Owen (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
Places
United States
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Owen, Indiana
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Owen, Missouri
Owen is an extinct town in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Owen was plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Of ...
, a ghost town
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Owen, Wisconsin
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Owen County, Indiana
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Owen County, Kentucky
Owen County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat is Owenton. The county is named for Colonel Abraham Owen. It is a prohibition or dry county, with the exception of a winery that is authorized ...
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Mount Owen (Colorado)
Mount Owen is the highest summit of the Ruby Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located in Gunnison National Forest at the edge of the Raggeds Wilderness, west-northwest ( bearing 290°) of the Town of Crested ...
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Mount Owen (Wyoming)
Elsewhere
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Owen Island
Owen Island in the Antarctic is a small (19 ha), circular, ice-free island lying between Round Point and Pottinger Point about 500 m off the north coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands
The South Shet ...
, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
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Owen, South Australia
Owen (postcode 5460) is a rural community in the heart of the Adelaide Plains. Owen is above sea-level and receives a reliable 416 mm (about 16.5 inches) of rain annually and was first settled in about 1865. It is about 80 km no ...
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Owen, Germany
Owen (, see below) is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located southeast of Stuttgart and south of Kirchheim unter Teck.
Pronunciation
The name's pronunciation contradicts ordinary German or ...
, town in Baden-Württemberg
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Mount Owen (disambiguation) Mount Owen can refer to:
*Mount Owen (New Zealand)
*Mount Owen, California, former name of Brown, California
* Mount Owen (Alberta) in the Bow Range of the Canadian Rockies
*Mount Owen (Antarctica)
* Mount Owen (Colorado) in the Ruby Range of Colora ...
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Port Owen, South Africa
Ships
* , a destroyer that took part in World War II and the Korean War
* , a British Royal Navy frigate
Other uses
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Owen (automobile), an American car made from 1910 to 1914
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Owen (musician), a solo project of American indie rock singer-songwriter Mike Kinsella
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''Owen'' (album), a 2001 album
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Owen (hippopotamus), a young orphan hippopotamus who formed a bond with a giant tortoise
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Owen gun, an Australian World War II submachine gun
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Owen Graduate School of Management, the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University
See also
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Owen Fracture Zone, a transform fault which runs along the eastern boundary of the Arabian Plate, separating it from the Indo-Australian Plate
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Owen Owen, UK department store chain
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''D.R. Owen'' (shipwreck), a schooner that was shipwrecked in Lake Superior in 1874
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Owen's (disambiguation)
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Owens (disambiguation)
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Eógan (given name)
or is an early Irish male name, which also has the hypocoristic and diminutive forms , , and . In more modern forms of Irish it is written as or (/'oːəun/).
In Scottish Gaelic the name is Eòghann or Eòghan. All of the above are often ang ...
, pronounced Owen, Irish-Scottish version of the given name
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Owain (disambiguation) Owain () is a name of Welsh origin, variously written in Old Welsh as Ougein, Eugein, Euguen, Iguein, Ou(u)ein, Eug(u)ein, Yuein, and in Middle Welsh as Ewein, Owein, and Ywein. Other variants of the name Owain include Ewein, Iguein, Owein, Ouein, ...
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