where does the surname owens originate from?

Answer 1

Ancestry.com's Family Facts (see link below) provides a lot of information on surnames, including Civil War Service, Immigration Year, Life Expectancy, Name Distribution (UK), Name Distribution (US), Name Meanings, Newspaper Headlines, Occupations, Place of Origin, and Ports of Departure.

According to this database, there have been 1155 Owens immigrants to America from England, 918 fron Ireland, 283 from Wales, 261 from Great Britain, 50 from Scotland, and 10 from Germany.

Answer 2

Owens
This is a Royal Welsh surname, being decsended from the ancient tribes of North Wales. 'Owens' is the patronymic of Owen, which is
derived from the ancient Celtic personal name "Owain", in Old Welsh "Ouen" or "Ouein". The name was adapted from the Latin
"Eugenius", meaning "well-born", but there are some who claim that the source was the Old Welsh "oen", the lamb. Given the warrior status
of the clan, this seems an unlikely explanation. Owain or Owen has long been one of the most popular of all Welsh personal names, and some
thirty-nine Owains are featured in ancient Welsh legends. Hereditary surnames were a later adoption in Wales than almost any other
European country, not becoming 'fixed' until the 17th century/ Examples of the name recording include Owen Gwynedd, a 12th Century
chieftain, and Owen Glendower (Owain Glyndwr), 1353 - 1416, the greatest hero of Welsh history. He was the Prince of Wales who
established the Welsh parliaments and nearly became an independent king of Wales, but was defeated by Henry 1V of England.
The personal name was first recorded in England in 926, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, as "Uwen". An interesting namebearer was John
Owens (1790 - 1846), a Manchester merchant who left about £1000,000 to found Owens College in Manchester, which was to be free
from religious tests. The college was opened in 1851, and incorporated by parliament in 1871. An example of the later recordings includes
the marriage in Wales of Owen Owens and Grace Jones, on December 20th 1755, at Bangor, Caernarvon. The coat of arms has the unusual
blazon of a red field, charged with six gold pineapples. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of
Ralph Owein, which was dated
1221, witness in the "Assize Rolls of Warwickshire", during the reign of
King Henry 111, known as "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272.

Answer 3

Owens is a patronymic variation of the Welsh surname Owen, from the Welsh personal name Owain, likely drawn from Latin Eugenius. Bowen is another patronymic form, a shortened version of ap'Owen

Answer 4

hi my grandad was an Owens he was born in Chesterfield but his parents were originally from Ireland, however there are an awful lot of Owens' in Wales.

Answer 5

Wales I think

Answer 6

It is usually a Welsh name.