Rowan — #71 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rowan

The Social Security Administration has registered 45,386 babies named Rowan between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rowan currently holds the #71 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 4,647 babies received it in a single year. Rowan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 20,976 additional births since 1942.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rowan performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 19,522 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Rowan shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,845 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Rowan in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rowan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 45,386 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.