Meaning not yet researched.
Rowena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #429 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #429 in 1917; #4,441 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rowena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,441 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #429.
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Rowena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #429 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 224 (1917).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Rowena, making it the 4,441st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,114 places from #3,327 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 48 girls named Rowena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #429, reached in 1917. That year also had the most girls given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #9,384 in 2015 and #897 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rowena in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 8 babies with the name. In all, 10,526 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,774 babies named Rowena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 338 US girls were named Rowena; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rowan (72,853 babies since 1880) and Rowen (10,816 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rovena, Rowenna and Rowana are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rovena (268), Rowenna (23), Rowana (15).
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 Rowena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,441 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,031 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,881 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,130 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,879 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,792 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,626 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,384 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,408 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,124 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,295 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,124 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,670 | — | — |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,794 | — | — |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,959 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,463 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,156 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,760 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,145 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,367 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,724 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,235 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,082 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,622 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,012 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,106 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,241 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,956 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,645 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,881 | — | — |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,426 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,611 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,652 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1968 | 64 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1967 | 80 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1966 | 75 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1964 | 99 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1963 | 122 | #963 | — | — |
| 1962 | 143 | #883 | — | — |
| 1961 | 126 | #962 | — | — |
| 1960 | 111 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1959 | 128 | #928 | — | — |
| 1958 | 107 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1957 | 136 | #876 | — | — |
| 1956 | 122 | #911 | — | — |
| 1955 | 135 | #837 | — | — |
| 1954 | 161 | #729 | — | — |
| 1953 | 153 | #739 | — | — |
| 1952 | 114 | #866 | — | — |
| 1951 | 114 | #839 | — | — |
| 1950 | 98 | #897 | — | — |
| 1949 | 89 | #947 | — | — |
| 1948 | 85 | #948 | — | — |
| 1947 | 113 | #828 | — | — |
| 1946 | 107 | #799 | — | — |
| 1945 | 89 | #801 | — | — |
| 1944 | 99 | #770 | — | — |
| 1943 | 124 | #684 | — | — |
| 1942 | 109 | #715 | — | — |
| 1941 | 120 | #649 | — | — |
| 1940 | 121 | #643 | — | — |
| 1939 | 140 | #570 | — | — |
| 1938 | 157 | #546 | — | — |
| 1937 | 136 | #581 | — | — |
| 1936 | 122 | #598 | — | — |
| 1935 | 122 | #590 | — | — |
| 1934 | 168 | #499 | — | — |
| 1933 | 139 | #540 | — | — |
| 1932 | 179 | #494 | — | — |
| 1931 | 159 | #522 | — | — |
| 1930 | 159 | #540 | — | — |
| 1929 | 177 | #509 | — | — |
| 1928 | 157 | #563 | — | — |
| 1927 | 171 | #543 | — | — |
| 1926 | 162 | #560 | — | — |
| 1925 | 170 | #551 | — | — |
| 1924 | 165 | #569 | — | — |
| 1923 | 188 | #510 | — | — |
| 1922 | 181 | #522 | — | — |
| 1921 | 209 | #477 | — | — |
| 1920 | 194 | #495 | — | — |
| 1919 | 200 | #471 | — | — |
| 1918 | 175 | #527 | — | — |
| 1917 | 224 | #429 | — | — |
| 1916 | 165 | #510 | — | — |
| 1915 | 182 | #459 | — | — |
| 1914 | 136 | #469 | — | — |
| 1913 | 119 | #459 | — | — |
| 1912 | 96 | #490 | — | — |
| 1911 | 60 | #547 | — | — |
| 1910 | 55 | #558 | — | — |
| 1909 | 52 | #528 | — | — |
| 1908 | 54 | #499 | — | — |
| 1907 | 41 | #579 | — | — |
| 1906 | 46 | #513 | — | — |
| 1905 | 27 | #695 | — | — |
| 1904 | 43 | #506 | — | — |
| 1903 | 27 | #651 | — | — |
| 1902 | 37 | #536 | — | — |
| 1901 | 37 | #507 | — | — |
| 1900 | 42 | #523 | — | — |
| 1899 | 38 | #478 | — | — |
| 1898 | 32 | #579 | — | — |
| 1897 | 34 | #507 | — | — |
| 1896 | 43 | #447 | — | — |
| 1895 | 41 | #451 | — | — |
| 1894 | 33 | #503 | — | — |
| 1893 | 41 | #429 | — | — |
| 1892 | 32 | #487 | — | — |
| 1891 | 32 | #455 | — | — |
| 1890 | 28 | #497 | — | — |
| 1889 | 17 | #638 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #592 | — | — |
| 1887 | 27 | #432 | — | — |
| 1886 | 18 | #536 | — | — |
| 1885 | 20 | #483 | — | — |
| 1884 | 19 | #476 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #558 | — | — |
| 1882 | 13 | #526 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #807 | — | — |
| 1880 | 8 | #670 | — | — |
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).