In 2025, 16 US boys were named Rowland, making it the 5,798th most common boys’ name of the year, up 329 places from #6,127 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 boys named Rowland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #500, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 90, in 1917. For comparison, it was #5,019 in 2015 and #1,003 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rowland in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 4,279 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 721 babies named Rowland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 208 US boys were named Rowland; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.