Rowena

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rowena: Recorded since 1968, it reached #245 in 1974, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#245highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#594
1997	#571
1998	#817
1999	#663
2000	#993
2001	#1107
2002	#1317
2003	#1383
2004	#1535
2005	#1796
2006	#1862
2007	#1854
2008	#2292
2009	#3422
2010	#2392
2011	#2432
2012	#4171
2013	#2460
2014	#5691
2015	#4103
2016	#2367
2017	#5765
2018	#3518
2019	#4686
2020	#3447
2021	#4634
2022	#3148
2023	#2927
2024	#4843

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 Republic of Ireland in 26 of the 44 years from 1968 to 2011.

In 2011: #937 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2432 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1968–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #357 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1968–2011
Highest recorded position: #245 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1974 (recorded 1968–2011).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rowena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 381 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1968.

Rowena 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.

Rowena'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#357 (1968)	#245 (1974)	#937 (2011)	26 of 44	198 (1968–2011)	17 (1974)
England and Wales · Girls	#594 (1996)	#571 (1997)	#4843 (2024)	29 of 29	381 (1996–2024)	45 (1997)

Rowena 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 Rowena in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	149	4 of 10	37
2000sbusiest	136	10 of 10	14
2010s	67	10 of 10	7
2020s	29	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

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

Rowena 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 2 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #245 in Republic of Ireland in 1974.

Rowena'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1862	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#663	36	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#571	45	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#594	41	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#384	6	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#377	6	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#407	5	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	7	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#334	8	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#365	7	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	6	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#355	8	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#313	11	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#283	14	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	14	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#311	10	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#298	10	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	11	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#245	17	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#282	12	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	6	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#383	5	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	6	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	4	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1968 and 2024, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #245, first reached in 1974.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, 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.

Rowan · #41, 55y
Rowen · #577, 30y
Rowenna · #3142, 12y
Rowland · #1765, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Fadumo · #248, 57y
Roseanne · #250, 54y
Bridie · #238, 50y
Bernice · #236, 58y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Earl · #245, 34y
Edyta · #245, 31y
Kiran · #245, 31y
Lester · #245, 28y

Rowena was ranked #245 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1974. 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.

Rowena 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 Rowena without appearing here.

Rowena moved ahead of

Max Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #5669.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #5581.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4686 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Rowena

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1628.
Judith Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #2887 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #1798.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2367 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.
Meabh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #2887 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #2314.

Moved the opposite way to Rowena

Aisling Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 while Aisling went from #87 to #41.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 while Alexandra went from #222 to #97.
Amy Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 while Amy went from #357 to #25.
Anna Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 while Anna went from #42 to #18.

Moved the same way as Rowena

Alma Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 and Alma from #250 to #937.
Audrey Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 and Audrey from #48 to #695.
Camilla Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 and Camilla from #270 to #612.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1968 and 2011 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rowena went from #357 to #937 and Deirdre from #7 to #695.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1968 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #245 in Republic of Ireland in 1974. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rowena

Rowena at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rowena across 2 official records

Rowena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rowena appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Rowena and the names beside it

Rowena moved ahead of

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Rowena at a glance

Rowena across 2 official records

Rowena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rowena appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Rowena

Rowena and the names beside it

Rowena moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rowena

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