Rowen
#1,406 for girls in 2025, 155 births · #486 for boys in 2025, 617 births
Given to boys 75.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 709 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,169since 1944
Rowen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,406 | 155 | #486 | 617 |
| 2024 | #1,270 | 183 | #445 | 709 |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 | #490 | 612 |
| 2022 | #1,406 | 162 | #523 | 567 |
| 2021 | #1,273 | 182 | #539 | 547 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | #541 | 524 |
| 2019 | #1,267 | 183 | #535 | 530 |
| 2018 | #1,243 | 187 | #492 | 586 |
| 2017 | #1,291 | 182 | #495 | 584 |
| 2016 | #1,338 | 177 | #656 | 399 |
| 2015 | #1,636 | 131 | #648 | 402 |
| 2014 | #1,922 | 104 | #785 | 294 |
| 2013 | #2,122 | 89 | #974 | 205 |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 | #888 | 236 |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 66 | #848 | 252 |
| 2010 | #2,841 | 61 | #989 | 199 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 | #1,134 | 162 |
| 2008 | #2,690 | 68 | #1,303 | 133 |
| 2007 | #2,822 | 64 | #1,124 | 160 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | #1,454 | 106 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #1,711 | 78 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #1,748 | 72 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rowen! It came in at #3,430, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rowen is popular in 1944
No state had 5 or more boys named Rowen in 1944, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Rowen
- 41 spots since 2024 (#445 → #486)
- 55 spots since 2020 (#541 → #486)
- 162 spots since 2015 (#648 → #486)
- Biggest jump: 189 spots in 2014 (#974 → #785)
- Biggest drop: 86 spots in 2013 (#888 → #974)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 2024 at #445 (709 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,430 boys born in 2024 were named Rowen (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,768 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 45.1% of all boys named Rowen (3,687) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,430 (1944) | #3,430 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 63 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,390 |
| 2000s | 838 | #1,124 (2007) | #2,070 |
| 2010s | 3,687 | #492 (2018) | #731 |
| 2020s | 3,576 | #445 (2024) | #504 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rowen in 1944
Top boys' names in 1944
More about 1944
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1,362,875 boys got a published name in 1944; 1 in 272,575 of them was named Rowen, which outranked 12.3% of the 3,909 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 479 names at #3,430; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.