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Rowena
Rank in 2024
#3,387
Born in 2024
46
Peak year
1917 · #429
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 46 girls were named Rowena, about 1 in every 35,069.
- It peaked in 1917 with 224 babies, ranked #429.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 10,491 girls have been named Rowena since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Rowena per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,216 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 2,477 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,263 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 984 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 449 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 206 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 340 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From the name of the daughter of Hengist and wife of Vortigern in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century pseudohistorical Latin work Historia regum Britanniae. There have been attempts to connect it to some unattested Old English or Common Brittonic name, but without any real evidence. It was revived after Walter Scott used it in his novel Ivanhoe (1819). Some places are named after Lady Rowena in the novel.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Rowena, CC BY-SA 4.0.