Rowé
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Rowé is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 69,879 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Jamaica it is the 56th most common surname. Recorded meaning: * As an English surname, from the noun row. Compare Rew and Rawe. * Also as an English surname, variant of Rolfe, Rough, Ralph, Rowson.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.1K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
69,879 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rowe in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)* As an English surname, from the noun row. Compare Rew and Rawe. * Also as an English surname, variant of Rolfe, Rough, Ralph, Rowson.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Rowé is found
(measured from records)Rowé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #391 | 69,879 | 1 in 4.8K | 70K | Rowe | 521 |
| GB United Kingdom | #221 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 30K | Rowe | 289 |
| AU Australia | #185 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Rowe | 235 |
| CA Canada | #324 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 1 | Rowe | 242 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Rowe | 65 |
| NZ New Zealand | #186 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Rowe | 125 |
| JM Jamaica | #56 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | register #18 | Rowe | 34 |
| IE Ireland | #318 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Rowe | 74 |
69,879 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rowé mean, and where does it come from?
- * As an English surname, from the noun row. Compare Rew and Rawe. * Also as an English surname, variant of Rolfe, Rough, Ralph, Rowson. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Rowé a male or female name?
- Rowé is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rowé?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 70 thousand people named Rowé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rowe. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rowé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 69,879 people named Rowé in 2010, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Rowé compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rowé is the 391st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/row%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rowé” — ranked 452nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.