Rowenna

Girls' name

Variant of Rowena

Rowenna has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 2020, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Rowenna, 2020

1 in 477,000

Rowenna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rowenna: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rowena

Germanic languages

What Rowenna means

Rowenna is a variant of Rowena.

Origin, language, and formation

Rowenna is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rowena.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 girls were recorded with the name Rowenna between 1936 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,757 in 1936.

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 Rowenna?

Rowenna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 477,000; 7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 330,960 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rowenna 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 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rowenna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rowennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rowenna was born before 2019 — so the typical Rowenna is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 78.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Rowenna 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 2020 (7)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,757; 1936

Spellings of Rowenna

Rowenna is not the most common spelling — Rosanna is, with 24.9% against Rowenna's 0.04%.

Rosanna24.9%14,636
Roxanna22.9%13,459
Rowena17.9%10,526
Roseanna10.0%5,881
Ronna7.9%4,623
Rowen4.5%2,647
Renna2.5%1,490
Rosena2.3%1,366

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.

Rowenna around the world

Where Rowenna 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.

England & Wales
1998–2024
#5,892
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rowenna 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: #4,757; 1936
Peak year: 2020; 7 that year
First recorded: 1936
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 23
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rowenna

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

Aytanna Jhianna Vivenna Royanna Sayanna Levanna Varenna Sovanna Aylanna Solanna Ailanna Zyaunna Aelianna Rowann Tazanna Vivienna Zurianna Zatanna Lelianna Laionna Giyanna Jhanna Ayvianna Avalanna

Sibling names for Rowenna

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

Dior Kamiyah Haisley Harmoni Melani Lianna Denisse Keren

For a brother

Kannon Kaison Santana Keanu Henri Joziah Ishaan Finnley

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