Rowland

Where Rowland comes from

The dictionaries list Rowland as a given name — a male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Roland — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1772
    Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill born
    British Army general
  2. 1795
    Rowland Hill born
    English educational, social and postal reformer
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1903
    Peak, #487
    19 babies named Rowland — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1904
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #810.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Roland.
Namesakes
  • Rowland Hill · English educational, social and postal reformer, 1795–1879
  • Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill · British Army general, 1772–1842
  • Rowland V. Lee · film director, 1891–1975
  • Rowland Wolfe · American gymnast, 1914–2010
  • Rowland S. Howard · Australian musician and songwriter, 1959–2009

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.