Tracing the Rowen Family Name

It is easy to miss Rowen in an index if you only search for Rowan. The family name meaning is “Dweller at, or near, a rowan tree (mountain ash); the little, red-haired man”, the same as for Rowan.

Spelling and variants

Records show Rowen as one of the forms Rowan took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Rowand, Roan and Ruane.

Rowen ranked 15,355 in the 2010 US Census, with 1,910 people answering to the name.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Rowan and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Get the complete Rowen report, with a museum-style coat of arms.