🔥Elowen

eh-LOW-en (Cornish); EL-oh-wen

Cornish

"elm"

Elowen Origin and Meaning

The name Elowen is a girl's name of Cornish origin meaning "elm".

A beautiful modern Cornish nature name that is rapidly picking up steam in the States: even spawning variant spellings like Elowyn and Elowynn. In its native region, it wasn't widely used as a name before the twentieth century, when the Cornish language was revived. A (currently) unique member of the fashionble El- family of names, it has a pleasant, evocative sound.

The traditional Cornish pronunciation is with stress on the middle syllable: eh-LOW-en. But most English speakers seem to pronounce it with first-syllable stress, perhaps on the example of more familiar names like Eleanor and Elodie.

Elowen Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 67 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Elowen

• 67 Nameberry 2025
• 59 Unique 2023
• 610 England 2023

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Famous People Named Elowen

• Elowen S. American child actress; twin of sister Willow

The name Elowen in Pop Culture

• Elowen character in Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s graphic novel "Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire"
• "Elowen and the Bramble Bush " Cornish folktale
• Lake Elowin California meaning "a place beyond the setting sun"
• Elo (star) wen (lady) meaning in Tolkien's Elvish