as a First Name
Variant of Roly, or a transferred use of the surname, a local name from any of the various places in England named with Old English rūh ‘rough, overgrown’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’.
| 36,784th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Dozens
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 124
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Rowley per capita
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