Rowyn
Rowyn is given to both girls and boys: 407 girls and 73 boys were given it in 2025 (#699 among girls’ names and #2,052 among boys’, #1,204 among all names counting both); 4,125 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,100 Americans named Rowyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rowyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rowyn?
#699 among girls’ names, 2025
Rowyn rose from #1,468 in 2015 to #699 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.25 per 1,000.
480 babies in 2025, the peak
Rowyn peaked in 2025, when 480 babies were given it (407 girls, #699 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 362 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 407 | #699 | 73 | #2,052 |
| 2024 | 362 | #781 | 79 | #1,983 |
| 2023 | 247 | #1,028 | 71 | #2,091 |
| 2022 | 273 | #976 | 65 | #2,233 |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,079 | 51 | #2,581 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,193 | 58 | #2,343 |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,153 | 44 | #2,842 |
| 2018 | 213 | #1,148 | 50 | #2,570 |
| 2017 | 182 | #1,298 | 53 | #2,441 |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,161 | 40 | #2,975 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 157 | #1,468 | 36 | #3,213 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,210 | 23 | #4,367 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,049 | 24 | #4,153 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,398 | 24 | #4,219 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,580 | 22 | #4,474 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,243 | 20 | #4,807 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,398 | 15 | #6,024 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,989 | 17 | #5,435 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,710 | 10 | #8,052 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,068 | 12 | #6,824 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,189 | 7 | #9,923 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,752 | 5 | #12,852 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,526 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,548 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,944 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,557 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,350 | under 5 |
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 Rowyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,125 Americans recorded as Rowyn, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rowyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rowyn, and how old are they?
4,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,125 Americans ever recorded as Rowyn. The median Rowyn alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,863 people named Rowyn (1,500 women and girls, 363 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,061 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 577 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,520 |
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 Rowyn born?
The states with the most babies named Rowyn are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #945 | 0.5× |
| California | 25 | #1,266 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #463 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 19 | #558 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 18 | #567 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 17 | #415 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #653 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,048 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 15 | #578 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #528 | 0.3× |
Where Rowyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rowyn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1999 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Rowyn 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,679 babies since 1880, Rowyn is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 480 of their 536 babies (90%), again the 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 Rowyn
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 Rowyn and names like it
- Compare Rowyn and RowynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRowyn peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rowyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rowyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rowyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.