Rowan
Alternative forms & variants: Rowen
“Little red one; also the sacred rowan tree with red berries”
Linguistic heritage: Scottish Gaelic
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Annual recorded US births from 1920 to 2025 (US Social Security Administration)
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Meanings cross-referenced with Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Nurturepedia (MIT). Phonetics audited against the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD).