Rowe — #3522 US boys' name
477 babies named Rowe in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 75% of names given to boys today.
34% of everyone ever named Rowe was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Rowe in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rowe
The Social Security Administration has registered 477 babies named Rowe between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rowe currently holds the #3522 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Rowe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 140 additional births since 2015.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rowe performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Rowe shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rowe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rowe 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 477 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.
Rowe at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rowe popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1914
- Peak year (2022)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 111 years of records
Currently ranks #3522 among boys.
477 total births across 111 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 37 births in a single year.
Rowe popularity over time — girls
140 total births recorded since 2015 (Rowe as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Rowe accounts for 23% of total recorded use across both genders.
Rowe by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 160 births that decade — 34% of Rowe's all-time total
Rowe decade highlights
- Peak decade 160 births
- Runner-up 115 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Rowe's strongest decade
160 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Rowe by state
Where Rowe concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.0% |
5 of 477 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1914–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.