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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ROWEN

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(origin: Local) A town in Bohemia; Rouen, a town in France; Rowan, a tree, the mountain-ash.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a rowan (see Rountree).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)