as a First Name
Latinized form of a Saxon name of uncertain form and derivation. It is perhaps from Germanic hrōd ‘fame’ + wynn ‘joy’. It first occurs in the Latin chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth (12th century) as the name of a daughter of the Saxon invader Hengist, and was taken up by Sir Walter Scott as the name of a Saxon woman, Lady Rowena of Hargottstanstede, who marries the eponymous hero of his novel Ivanhoe (1819).
| 1,707th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,502
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Rowena per capita
- 1917
- marked the height of its popularity
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