Baby name
STABLE
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 Rowena
/roh · EE · nuh/
Meaning
“Possibly fame and joy”
Meaning uncertain. Geoffrey of Monmouth gave this name to the daughter of the Saxon chief Hengist in the 12th century. It may come from Old English elements meaning 'fame' and 'joy', or from Old Welsh elements meaning 'spear' and 'white', but neither is certain. Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe (1819) popularized it as an English given name.
Nicknames
ro
Vibe
poeticgentletimeless
How it ages.
A storybook name from medieval legend and Walter Scott's Ivanhoe: graceful and vintage, and rarely heard today.
The cultural moment.
Rare today; last ranked #432 in the Netherlands in 2009 and #959 in the United States in 1963.