as a Last Name
- 16,660
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Rowley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the various places, in Devon, County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, so named from Old English rūh ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
| 2,210th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,660
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Rowley per capita
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