What is the ansestry for the last name Owens?

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What is the ansestry for the last name Owens?

Answer 1

Owens is a common name, and you cannot assume that all are related.  YOUR Owens ancestry will be yours (and siblings) alone, since yours will include your mother's side.  Same is true for your father.  His ancestry will include his maternal side.

Ancestry is always based on working from YOU backwards, using records.  Think about it.. it will always be unique.

A name MAY have an accepted origin (as posted above), however, even that is open to debate. Some names do not come from all one location.  Origin of a NAME is surname etymology, which seems the same as ancestry, but there is a difference.

Answer 2

Surname: Owens

Recorded as Owens and occasionally Owenson, this is a Royal Welsh surname, being, it is claimed, descent from the ancient tribes of North Wales. It is a patronymic of Owen, which is derived either from the ancient Celtic personal name Owain, adapted from the Latin "Eugenius", meaning "well-born", or from the Old Welsh word "oen", meaning 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", and the much later coat of arms has the unusual blazon of a red field, charged with six gold pineapples. The first recorded spelling of the family name in any form may be that of Ralph Owein. This was dated 1221, in the Assize Rolls of Warwickshire", during the reign of King Henry 111rd of England, 1216 - 1272. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Answer 3

Owens  

Last name origins & meanings:

Welsh: patronymic from Owen, with English patronymic -s.

Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen).