Rowena

#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births

Peak · girls
1893 · 41 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
10,526
since 1880

Rowena over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Rowena has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #422, 1893girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#4,35232
2024#3,27748
2023#3,98437
2022#3,82739
2021#4,24533
2020#3,09151
2019#4,77328
2018#4,66229
2017#5,66122
2016#6,40119
2015#8,93112
2014#8,05314
2013#9,61211
2012#9,71111
2011#7,78315
2010#13,4487
2009#8,45414
2008#9,47612
2007#10,81810
2006#7,86815
2005#6,52818
2004#7,82814
2003#13,8446
2002#8,28012
2001#8,75811
2000#6,80815
1999#7,23913
1998#5,79917
1997#5,86816
1996#5,06519
1995#7,51411
1994#8,12210
1993#5,67316
1992#5,26718
1991#4,49722
1990#4,52321
1989#4,02024
1988#3,48327
1987#3,62424
1986#2,72435
1985#2,54538
1984#2,34041
1983#2,09747
1982#1,99152
1981#2,26544
1980#1,83359
1979#1,87456
1978#2,01247
1977#1,80156
1976#1,74754
1975#1,60461
1974#1,91345
1973#1,58958
1972#1,57858
1971#1,38976
1970#1,68155
1969#1,72849
1968#1,40664
1967#1,18780
1966#1,24175
1965#1,09791
1964#1,09799
1963#959122
1962#879143
1961#961126
1960#1,020111
1959#921128
1958#1,003107
1957#871136
1956#908122
1955#834135
1954#728161
1953#736153
1952#863114
1951#835114
1950#89598
1949#94589
1948#93985
1947#825113
1946#796107
1945#79989
1944#76899
1943#681124
1942#711109
1941#647120
1940#641121
1939#570140
1938#544157
1937#577136
1936#597122
1935#587122
1934#496168
1933#539139
1932#494179
1931#521159
1930#539159
1929#508177
1928#558157
1927#541171
1926#557162
1925#550170
1924#568165
1923#509188
1922#520181
1921#477209
1920#494194
1919#469200
1918#526175
1917#429224
1916#509165
1915#455182
1914#468136
1913#457119
1912#48996
1911#54260
1910#55055
1909#52252
1908#49354
1907#57241
1906#50946
1905#68327
1904#50043
1903#64027
1902#52837
1901#49937
1900#51942
1899#47638
1898#57132
1897#49734
1896#44043
1895#44041
1894#49433
1893#42241
1892#47932
1891#44732
1890#49128
1889#62017
1888#57219
1887#42427
1886#52818
1885#47020
1884#46319
1883#53613
1882#50713
1881#7406
1880#6288
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Rowena was already there! It came in at #628, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.

Where Rowena is popular in 1907

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Rowena
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,075 spots since 2024 (#3,277 → #4,352)
  • 1,261 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #4,352)
  • 4,579 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #4,352)
  • Biggest jump: 233 spots in 1882 (#740 → #507)
  • Biggest drop: 183 spots in 1905 (#500 → #683)
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1893 at #422 (41 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 99 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 82 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 82 yrs · run 1880–1957
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,827
  • Highest: 1 in 4,827 girls born in 1917 were named Rowena (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #422 in 1893, was only 1 in 5,193 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 16.9% of all girls named Rowena (1,774) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s160#424 (1887)#549
1890s354#422 (1893)#476
1900s406#493 (1908)#547
1910s1,412#429 (1917)#489
1920s1,774#477 (1921)#528
1930s1,481#494 (1932)#546
1940s1,056#641 (1940)#775
1950s1,268#728 (1954)#859
1960s960#879 (1962)#1,158
1970s566#1,389 (1971)#1,719
1980s391#1,833 (1980)#2,692
1990s163#4,497 (1991)#5,957
2000s127#6,528 (2005)#8,866
2010s168#4,662 (2018)#7,904
2020s240#3,091 (2020)#3,796

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Rowena in 1907

girls
#572
41 births · 1 in 7,770 girls

Top girls' names in 1907

  1. #1Mary17,580
  2. #2Helen7,579
  3. #3Margaret6,713
  4. #4Anna5,575
  5. #5Ruth5,573
  6. #6Dorothy4,967
  7. #7Elizabeth4,624
  8. #8Mildred4,277
  9. #9Alice4,107
  10. #10Marie3,880
  11. #572Rowena41
More about 1907

girls

318,564 girls got a published name in 1907; 1 in 7,770 of them was named Rowena, which outranked 76.2% of the 2,399 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rowena
  1. #564Rosalind42
  2. #564Rubie42
  3. #564Ursula42
  4. #572Rowena41
  5. #572Corrine41
  6. #572Glenna41
  7. #572Grayce41
  8. #580Almeda40
  9. #580Janice40
  10. #580Lida40

Tied with 7 names at #572; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,028Lota#1,951 → #923
  2. ↑ 1,028Tula#1,951 → #923
  3. ↑ 961Cleda#1,951 → #990
  4. ↑ 961Ingrid#1,951 → #990
  5. ↑ 961Santa#1,951 → #990
Fallers
  1. ↓ 926Macy#895 → #1,821
  2. ↓ 742Libbie#642 → #1,384
  3. ↓ 736Hertha#776 → #1,512
  4. ↓ 719Zadie#793 → #1,512
  5. ↓ 674Anabel#965 → #1,639

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1907 →