Rowen

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Rowen: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #577, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#577highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#2738
1998	#1823
1999	#1675
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2002	#2540
2003	#2727
2004	#2802
2005	#1406
2006	#3116
2007	#2410
2008	#3005
2009	#3422
2010	#2589
2011	#3185
2012	#4171
2013	#4739
2014	#2314
2015	#2945
2016	#2120
2017	#2201
2018	#2674
2019	#3541
2020	#2843
2021	#2711
2022	#2178
2023	#2504
2024	#4192

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #619 among boys in Scotland, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #757 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1522 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2024–2025
Highest recorded position: #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2024–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Rowen appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 232 births with the name.

Rowen across 3 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.

Rowen'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	#2863 (1996)	#757 (2024)	#757 (2024)	27 of 29	364 (1996–2024)	45 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#1406 (2005)	#4192 (2024)	29 of 29	232 (1996–2024)	16 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#655 (2024)	#577 (2025)	#577 (2025)	2 of 2	9 (2024–2025)	5 (2025)

Rowen by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rowen in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	35	4 of 10	9
2000s	69	10 of 10	7
2010s	84	10 of 10	8
2020sbusiest	44	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rowen appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #577 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Rowen'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#757	45	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#929	33	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#799	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1139	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1279	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1339	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #577, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rumaysa · #578, 28y
Liya · #575, 25y
Noura · #583, 27y
Kiyan · #592, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aren · #577, 27y
Lemuel · #577, 29y
Shaan · #577, 29y
Yassin · #577, 30y

Rowen was ranked #577 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rowen 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rowen without appearing here.

Rowen moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4171 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2314 and #5691.
Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2837 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1339 and #4685.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Rowen

Mila Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1675 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1313.
Olive Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1675 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1313.
Selma Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1675 and #2444 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #1389.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Rowen

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rowen went from #2863 to #757 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rowen went from #1522 to #4192 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rowen went from #2863 to #757 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rowen went from #2863 to #757 while Alan went from #163 to #592.

Moved the same way as Rowen

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rowen went from #1522 to #4192 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rowen went from #1522 to #4192 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rowen went from #1522 to #4192 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rowen went from #2863 to #757 and Albie from #853 to #19.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #577 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rowen

Rowen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rowen across 3 official records

Rowen by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rowen appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rowen at a glance

Rowen across 3 official records

Rowen by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rowen appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rowen

Rowen and the names beside it

Rowen moved ahead of

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