🔥Rowena

ro-WEE-na
Welsh
"white spear or famous friend"

Rowena Origin and Meaning

The name Rowena is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "white spear or famous friend".

A fabled storybook name via the heroine of Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe (1819), which featured a heroine called Rowena of Hargottstanstede, and also a Harry Potter name, as Rowena Ravenclaw, founder of one of the Hogwarts houses.. Rowena has some old-fashioned charm, though most modern parents seem to prefer Rowen. Pronunciation, however, is NOT like Rowen with an a at the end, but with a long e and an emphasis on the middle syllable. She was on the popularity list until 1963, several years in the Top 500.

# 961 in the US

Rowena Rank in US Top 1000

# 417 on Nameberry

Rowena Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Rowena Popularity

Famous People Named Rowena

  • Rowena Cooper
    Zimbabwean,British actress
  • Rowena Othlie Jackson
    New Zealand ballerina
  • Rowena Fischer Meeks Abdy
    American painter
  • Rowena Moore
    American civil rights activist
  • Rowena A. Morrill
    American illustrator
  • Rowena Wallace
    Australian actress
  • Rowena Evelyn Webster
    Australian Olympic water polo player
  • Rowena Tsai
    American YouTuber
  • Rowena Fulham
    New Zealand footballer
  • Rowena Granice Steele
    American actress and novelist
  • Rowena Josephine King
    English actress
  • Rowena Bradley
    Cherokee (Native American) basket,weaver
  • Rowena Alissa Kennett
    Thai VJ

Rowena in Pop Culture

  • Rowena of Hargottstandstede
    character in "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott
  • Rowena Trevanion
    character in "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rowena Ravenclaw
    founder of one of the four Hogwarts houses in the Harry Potter series
  • Rowena Morgan
    character in "Mr. Holland's Opus"
  • Rowena Greene
    character in "Once a Witch" by Carolyn McCullough
  • Rowena
    duchess character in "Barbie in the Twelve Dancing Princesses"
  • Rowena
    character in "Supernatural"
  • Rowena
    wife of King Vortigern in British legend
  • Rowena
    character in Kevin Crossley,Holland's "Gatty's Tale"