Rowen

Where Rowen comes from

From Middle English rown (“rowan tree”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rowen
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #3,430 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Rowen Muscat born
    Maltese football player
  3. 1999
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2024
    Peak, #445
    709 babies named Rowen — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Rowen Muscat · Maltese football player, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.