Rowe

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rowe: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

1registrar recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
7years from first to last
#1307highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2021–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2021	#5581
2023	#4709
2024	#4192
2025	#5927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2019 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2019–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2019
First recorded at #4702 among boys in England and Wales in 2019 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2019–2025
Highest recorded position: #1307 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 2019–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Rowe appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 7 years beginning in 2019, and has registered 76 births with the name.

Rowe across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rowe's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#1307 (2025)	#1307 (2025)	7 of 7	76 (2019–2025)	21 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#5581 (2021)	#4192 (2024)	#5927 (2025)	4 of 5	15 (2021–2025)	5 (2024)

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2019 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1307 in England and Wales in 2025.

Rowe's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#1307	21	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1402	19	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Rowe and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rowe without appearing here.

Rowe moved ahead of

Graham
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1402 and #5119.
Jade
In 2020 they stood at #4608 and #3848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2301 and #4789.
Geoffrey
In 2022 they stood at #2529 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #4107.
Fredrik
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1272 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1402 and #3254.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2019 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #1307 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rowe

Rowe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rowe across 2 official records

Popularity data

Rowe and the names beside it

Rowe moved ahead of

Rowe at a glance

Rowe across 2 official records

Rowe and the names beside it

Rowe moved ahead of