Rowena

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Germanic languages.
• (unincorporated) community Kentucky (state)
• community New Brunswick (province) Canada (country)
• town New South Wales (state) Australia (country)
• census-designated place Oregon (state)
• (unincorporated) community South Dakota (state)
• (unincorporated) community Texas (state)

Origin

• From the name of the daughter of Hengist and wife of Vortigern in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century pseudohistorical Latin work Historia regum Britanniae. There have been attempts to connect it to some unattested Old English or Common Brittonic name, but without any real evidence. It was revived after Walter Scott used it in his novel Ivanhoe (1819).