Rowena

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Rowena

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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).

Some places are named after Lady Rowena in the novel.

proper noun

A female given name from the Germanic languages.
An unincorporated community in Early County, Georgia.
An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Redwood County, Minnesota.
An unincorporated community in Audrain County, Missouri.
A census-designated place in Wasco County, Oregon.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.
An unincorporated community in Runnels County, Texas.
A community in New Brunswick, Canada.
A town in Walgett Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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@misc{rowena_2026,
  title = {Rowena},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rowena},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}