🔥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.

Rowena Rank in US Top 1000

# 961 in the US

Rowena Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 408 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Rowena

• 408 Nameberry 2025

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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

The name 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"