Rowen
Rowen is given to both girls and boys: 155 girls and 617 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,411 among girls’ names and #488 among boys’, #835 among all names counting both); 10,816 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,700 Americans named Rowen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rowen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rowen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rowen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “rowan tree” (rown).
From Middle English rown (“rowan tree”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rowen?
#488 among boys’ names, 2025
Rowen rose from #648 in 2015 to #488 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.21 to 0.36 per 1,000.
892 babies in 2024, the peak
Rowen peaked in 2024, when 892 babies were given it (709 boys, #445 among boys’ names). The 772 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,411 | 617 | #488 |
| 2024 | 183 | #1,273 | 709 | #445 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,338 | 612 | #490 |
| 2022 | 162 | #1,411 | 567 | #526 |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,274 | 547 | #540 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,499 | 524 | #541 |
| 2019 | 183 | #1,273 | 530 | #536 |
| 2018 | 187 | #1,247 | 586 | #493 |
| 2017 | 182 | #1,297 | 584 | #496 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,344 | 399 | #657 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 131 | #1,641 | 402 | #648 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,936 | 294 | #786 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,133 | 205 | #978 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,997 | 236 | #890 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,686 | 252 | #848 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,863 | 199 | #992 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,290 | 162 | #1,137 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,715 | 133 | #1,314 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,851 | 160 | #1,127 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,549 | 106 | #1,459 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,745 | 78 | #1,718 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,362 | 72 | #1,755 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,945 | 45 | #2,383 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,739 | 32 | #2,926 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,827 | 31 | #2,972 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,554 | 19 | #4,170 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,147 | 11 | #5,961 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,537 | 11 | #5,753 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,873 | 6 | #9,034 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,327 | 8 | #6,984 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,184 | 6 | #8,664 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,218 | 5 | #9,957 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,494 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,536 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,234 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,830 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rowen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,816 Americans recorded as Rowen, 24% are girls and 76% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rowen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rowen, and how old are they?
10,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,816 Americans ever recorded as Rowen. The median Rowen alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 6,134 people named Rowen (1,639 women and girls, 4,495 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,363 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 58 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,570 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rowen born?
The states with the most babies named Rowen are Texas, California and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 70 | #531 | 0.6× |
| California | 62 | #588 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 46 | #487 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | #368 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 35 | #378 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 32 | #380 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 28 | #440 | 1.2× |
| New York | 26 | #762 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 24 | #323 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 23 | #540 | 0.7× |
Where Rowen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rowen is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1944 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rowen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 83,987 babies since 1880, Rowen is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 772 of their 7,241 babies (11%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rowen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rowen and names like it
- Compare Rowen and RowanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRowen peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rowen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rowen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Rowen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rowen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.