The Owings surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,381 people carried this name — #7,585 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 67,100 people counted. That is up 1% from 4,328 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Owings surname

Variant of Owens.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Owings» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Owings in American newspapers,
1900–1918.

Newspaper page from The Saint Paul Globe carrying the name Owings
The Saint Paul Globe 1900-02-05
Newspaper page from The Wallace Miner carrying the name Owings
The Wallace Miner 1918-07-04
Newspaper page from The Wallace Miner carrying the name Owings
The Wallace Miner 1918-02-21

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Owings in Australian newspapers,
1890s–1920s.

30 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Owings. The most, 11, date from the 1890s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 15
Victoria 8
New South Wales 4
Western Australia 3

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Owings.

Who carried it

People named Owings,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Lewis S. Owings
    Lewis S. Owings 1820–1875 · physician
  • James Claggett Owings, Jr. d. 2018 · mathematician
  • Richard Lemon Owings 1812–1902 · explorer
  • Nathaniel A. Owings 1903–1984 · writer
  • George W. Owings Jr. 1907–1984 · politician
  • George W. Owings III 1945–2023 · military personnel

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Owings,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States282 records

282 records of the Owings name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 187
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 70
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 17
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 5
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Arlington C. Owings

    Born 1919 in Ohio. Enlisted 1941 at Fort Hayes Columbus; painter from Perry County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Mount Zion Cemetery, Logan, Ohio.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record David Owings

    U.S. Navy veteran. Born 1938, died 1996; buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Thomas Owings

    Arrived at New York in 1882 aboard the City of Montreal from Liverpool, aged 22. From England.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 282 records for Owings in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Owings name in Canada Canadian Virtual War Memorial
  1. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record Samuel Franklin Owings

    Died in service in 1918.

    Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.

Counts: Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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