Rovena

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Rovena has been given to 268 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Rovena, 1965

1 in 725,000

Rovena over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rovena: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rovena means

Rovena is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rovena is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 268 girls were recorded with the name Rovena between 1912 and 1965. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,894 in 1935.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rovena?

Rovena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1965: 1 in 725,000; 5 of 3,625,243 births
Among girls only: 1 in 353,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1965: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 502,567 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rovena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1965 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rovena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rovenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rovena was born before 1933 — so the typical Rovena is around 92 today.

Median birth year: 1933; About 92 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 36.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 58; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Rovena rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (12)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,894; 1935

Spellings of Rovena

Rovena is not the most common spelling — Lorena is, with 20.9% against Rovena's 0.12%.

Lorena20.9%44,960
Raven20.9%44,920
Rena18.2%39,124
Roxana5.6%11,994
Rowena4.9%10,526
Romina3.4%7,247
Rosina2.6%5,574
Rona2.5%5,444

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rovena is used

Across 1910–2025, Rovena was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 471,198 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1South Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rovena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rovena around the world

Where Rovena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Canada
2024–2024
#3,457
in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rovena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,894; 1935
Peak year: 1922; 12 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1965
All-time count: 268
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rovena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Alaena Mylena Galena Yalena Halena Kawena Zelena Calena Adeena Aveena Eleena Gimena Cerena Thena Atheena Solena Relena Kylena Zalena Nevena Valena Syrena Raveena Ciena

Sibling names for Rovena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Tressie Filomena Lavinia

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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