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  2. Owen (name) - Wikipedia

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    Owen is usually an anglicised variant of the Welsh personal name Owain. Originally a patronymic , Owen became a fixed surname in Wales beginning with the reign of Henry VIII . [ 1 ] Etymologists consider it to originate from Eugene , meaning 'noble-born'. [ 2 ]

  3. Owens (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Owens is a surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities: the Welsh from ab Owain meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') with English patronymic-s, and the Irish by the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain. [1] This is a list of notable people born with the last name Owens and people who married into the Owens family.

  4. Owen - Wikipedia

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    Owen Owen, UK department store chain; D.R. Owen, a schooner that was shipwrecked in Lake Superior in 1874; Owen's (disambiguation) Owens (disambiguation) Eógan (given name), pronounced Owen, Irish-Scottish version of the given name; Owain (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Owen

  5. Bowen (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Bowen is a Celtic surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities, the Welsh ab Owain meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') and the Irish Ó Buadhacháin meaning "descendant of Bohan" (Bohan meaning 'victorious'). [1] [2] The Bowen lineage can be traced back to Llwyngwair in the 11th century, near Nevern in Pembrokeshire. [3]

  6. Eógan - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Irish form of the name is Eoghan (pronounced ['oː(ə)nˠ]). In Scottish Gaelic the name is Eòghann or Eòghan. All of the above are often anglicised as Ewen or, less often, Owen. The name in both Goidelic languages is generally considered a derivative of the Greek and Latin name Eugenes, meaning "noble born". [1] [2] [3]

  7. Ewen - Wikipedia

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    It is possibly a derivative of the Pictish name, Uuen (or 'Wen'), "born of the mountain." [1] Ewen or Ewan is also a Scottish surname, as in Clan MacEwen. Ewen is also a Breton male given name, an alternative form of Erwan, the patron saint of Brittany. Owen is the predominant Welsh variation of the name. Ouen can be considered the French ...

  8. Ewan - Wikipedia

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    A Pictish name, Uuen (or Wen) meaning "(the) warrior", [1] or "born of the mountain", [2] may instead be the source. If the source is Latin Eugenius, it would make Ewan a cognate of Welsh, Cornish and Breton names including Owain (Owen) and Ouen. However, these may be older names derived from Britonnic language words referring to yew trees or ...

  9. List of Irish-language given names - Wikipedia

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    Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne.