Meaning and Origin of: Rowley

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Tree with red berries
  • English : Unevenly cleared meadow

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the various places, in Devon, County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, so named from Old English rūh ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.