Meaning not yet researched.
Rowen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 617 in 2025. Its best rank was #445 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #445 in 2024; #488 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Rowen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#488 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #445.
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Rowen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 617 boys in 2025. Peak: #445 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 709 (2024).
In 2025, 617 US boys were named Rowen, making it the 488th most common boys’ name of the year, down 43 places from #445 in 2024. That is 92 fewer than the 709 boys named Rowen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #445, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 709. For comparison, it was #648 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 155 US girls were named Rowen, making it the 1,411th most common girls’ name of the year, down 138 places from #1,273 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 183 girls named Rowen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,247, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 187. For comparison, it was #1,641 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rowen in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 10,816 US babies have been given the name, 24% of them girls and 76% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,965 babies named Rowen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,675 US boys were named Rowen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 709. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,768 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rowen ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #291 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Owen (246,320 babies since 1880), Rowan (72,853 babies since 1880), Raven (48,253 babies since 1880) and Rowena (10,526 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rowen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #291 | — |
| Indiana | 24 | #323 | #435 |
| Idaho | 8 | #326 | — |
| Louisiana | 16 | #331 | #618 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #354 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #368 | #530 |
| Iowa | 10 | #371 | #554 |
| Ohio | 30 | #378 | #347 |
| Washington | 20 | #380 | #629 |
| Kansas | 10 | #381 | — |
| Tennessee | 22 | #383 | #622 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #400 | — |
| Utah | 12 | #405 | #549 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #422 | #798 |
| Virginia | 19 | #430 | #775 |
| Michigan | 20 | #440 | #419 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #471 | #552 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #481 | — |
| Florida | 38 | #487 | #1,172 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #488 | — |
| South Carolina | 10 | #495 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #500 | #382 |
| Oregon | 7 | #517 | #356 |
| Texas | 62 | #531 | #914 |
| Illinois | 18 | #540 | #466 |
| Alabama | 9 | #562 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #573 | #462 |
| California | 51 | #588 | #873 |
| Missouri | 10 | #590 | #388 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #610 | #806 |
| Arizona | 10 | #667 | #774 |
| Georgia | 14 | #703 | #898 |
| New York | 19 | #762 | #994 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #895 | #1,080 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| 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 |
| 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 | #2,687 | 252 | #848 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,864 | 199 | #992 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,291 | 162 | #1,137 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,715 | 133 | #1,314 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,851 | 160 | #1,127 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,550 | 106 | #1,459 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,750 | 78 | #1,721 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,366 | 72 | #1,758 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,950 | 45 | #2,387 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,745 | 32 | #2,930 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,834 | 31 | #2,977 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,562 | 19 | #4,176 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,154 | 11 | #5,967 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,541 | 11 | #5,760 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,878 | 6 | #9,040 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,335 | 8 | #6,991 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,189 | 6 | #8,671 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,224 | 5 | #9,963 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,500 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,544 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,243 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,832 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).