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 | ||
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| 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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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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wisconsin#450 · 1 in 2,729
- Oregon#477 · 1 in 2,582
- Washington#477 · 1 in 2,763
- Alabama#522 · 1 in 3,171
- Iowa#533 · 1 in 3,024
Best ever in a state: #158 in New Hampshire, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #450 | 10 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Oregon | #477 | 7 | 1 in 2,582 |
| Washington | #477 | 13 | 1 in 2,763 |
| Alabama | #522 | 7 | 1 in 3,171 |
| Iowa | #533 | 5 | 1 in 3,024 |
| Oklahoma | #592 | 6 | 1 in 3,376 |
| Ohio | #636 | 13 | 1 in 4,597 |
| Minnesota | #653 | 6 | 1 in 4,616 |
| Louisiana | #696 | 6 | 1 in 4,030 |
| Indiana | #771 | 6 | 1 in 5,946 |
| Michigan | #771 | 8 | 1 in 5,955 |
| Missouri | #789 | 5 | 1 in 6,351 |
| Arizona | #859 | 5 | 1 in 7,398 |
| Tennessee | #872 | 5 | 1 in 7,158 |
| Pennsylvania | #927 | 7 | 1 in 8,604 |
| Florida | #961 | 11 | 1 in 8,360 |
| New York | #1,058 | 11 | 1 in 9,482 |
| Georgia | #1,063 | 6 | 1 in 9,002 |
| California | #1,068 | 19 | 1 in 12,131 |
| Illinois | #1,073 | 7 | 1 in 9,502 |
| North Carolina | #1,084 | 5 | 1 in 10,111 |
| Texas | #1,302 | 12 | 1 in 14,804 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 17,970 of them was named Rowen, which outranked 89.8% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,973Martina99
- #1,973Trisha99
- #1,973Zarah99
- #1,983Rowen98
- #1,983Aislyn98
- #1,983Aylah98
- #1,983Chava98
- #2,003Alyana97
- #2,003Anisha97
- #2,003Caylin97
Tied with 19 names at #1,983; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 8,038 of them was named Rowen, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).