Rowen
#1,406 for girls in 2025, 155 births · #486 for boys in 2025, 617 births
Given to boys 75.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 709 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,169since 1944
Rowen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,406 | 155 | #486 | 617 |
| 2024 | #1,270 | 183 | #445 | 709 |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 | #490 | 612 |
| 2022 | #1,406 | 162 | #523 | 567 |
| 2021 | #1,273 | 182 | #539 | 547 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | #541 | 524 |
| 2019 | #1,267 | 183 | #535 | 530 |
| 2018 | #1,243 | 187 | #492 | 586 |
| 2017 | #1,291 | 182 | #495 | 584 |
| 2016 | #1,338 | 177 | #656 | 399 |
| 2015 | #1,636 | 131 | #648 | 402 |
| 2014 | #1,922 | 104 | #785 | 294 |
| 2013 | #2,122 | 89 | #974 | 205 |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 | #888 | 236 |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 66 | #848 | 252 |
| 2010 | #2,841 | 61 | #989 | 199 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 | #1,134 | 162 |
| 2008 | #2,690 | 68 | #1,303 | 133 |
| 2007 | #2,822 | 64 | #1,124 | 160 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | #1,454 | 106 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #1,711 | 78 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #1,748 | 72 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rowen! It came in at #3,430, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rowen
- 41 spots since 2024 (#445 → #486)
- 55 spots since 2020 (#541 → #486)
- 162 spots since 2015 (#648 → #486)
- Biggest jump: 189 spots in 2014 (#974 → #785)
- Biggest drop: 86 spots in 2013 (#888 → #974)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 2024 at #445 (709 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,430 boys born in 2024 were named Rowen (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,768 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 45.1% of all boys named Rowen (3,687) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,430 (1944) | #3,430 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 63 | #5,466 (1998) | #7,390 |
| 2000s | 838 | #1,124 (2007) | #2,070 |
| 2010s | 3,687 | #492 (2018) | #731 |
| 2020s | 3,576 | #445 (2024) | #504 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rowen in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,011 of them was named Rowen, which outranked 92.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,330Skylah178
- #1,330Tianna178
- #1,330Yara178
- #1,338Rowen177
- #1,338Alex177
- #1,338Brisa177
- #1,338Kacey177
- #1,345Clover176
- #1,345Kamiya176
- #1,345Leilah176
Tied with 6 names at #1,338; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 4,756 of them was named Rowen, which outranked 95.4% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.