Row
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from OE rūh 'rough' or OE rāw 'row of houses/street'; first attested Geoffrey le Ruwe 1195 P (Lei)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Row is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- INIndia
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OE rūh 'rough' or OE rāw 'row of houses/street'; first attested Geoffrey le Ruwe 1195 P (Lei)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Row, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Row counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 37 | Row | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 734 | Row | 109 |
| US United States | — | 2.5K | Row | 256 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | Row | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Row | 82 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 112 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 36 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Row is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pek, a hardwood tree: Intsia bijuga (black inside)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
ISO 639-3 language code for Dela-Oenale.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, was, were (dependent form)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, quiet, rest, calm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- George Eric Rowe Gedyeb. 1890GBnot in their usual nameBritish journalist and author (1890–1970)
- Franz Klineb. 1910USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter (1910-1962)
- Eva Robertb. 1912AUnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Robert R. Gilruthb. 1913USnot in their usual nameAmerican aerospace engineer (1913–2000)
- Charles Nelsonb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican economist
- Randall Rowb. 1971CRCosta Rican footballer
- Jess Rowb. 1974USAward winning American writer and academic
- Zebedee Rowb. 1988AUactor
- Lora Rowb. 1988BGBulgarian pornographic actress
- Max Alleyneb. 2005GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Row mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE rūh 'rough' or OE rāw 'row of houses/street'; first attested Geoffrey le Ruwe 1195 P (Lei) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Row have the most bearers?
- Row is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled row.
What do you want to know about Row?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rowThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Row”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.