Rowena
Rowena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 429th, in 1893, 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1917224 births
- Best rank
- #429first in 1893
- Since 1880
- 10,491people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,491 girls have been named Rowena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 224 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rowena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 160 | |
| 1890s | 354 | |
| 1900s | 406 | |
| 1910s | 1,412 | |
| 1920s | 1,774 | |
| 1930s | 1,481 | |
| 1940s | 1,056 | |
| 1950s | 1,268 | |
| 1960s | 960 | |
| 1970s | 566 | |
| 1980s | 391 | |
| 1990s | 163 | |
| 2000s | 127 | |
| 2010s | 168 | |
| 2020s | 205 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Rowena was the 429th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Rowena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dollypeak 1926
- Margaretpeak 1921
- Elvirapeak 1920
- Eugeniapeak 1919
- Lavadapeak 1921
- Rosepeak 1917
- Lenorapeak 1924
- Irmapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.