Ronan or Rowan?

[Starsandthemoonx]

between these two names for my baby boy which does everyone prefer? thanks

Yes Brizzle. Rowan is definitely a male name, only recently started being used for girls.

My ds is Roan.

How do you pronounce Roan? I've heard it pronounced the same as Rowan but I thought it was pronounced to rhyme with bone and scone (not scon!)

I love Ronan or the more popular Roman that some people use nowadays. Really don’t like Rowan. I love Rory, beautiful name

Ro an without a 'w' sound!!
He is 17 and loves his name!

Definitely Rowan, nearly called ds that. Ronan is boyzone to me.

I think the trad feminine version of Rowan is Rowena. Rowan for a girl is very recent and infrequent

I would assume a Rowan was a girl.

I don't particularly like Ronan - maybe because I've known two of them and wish I'd never met either.

I feel Rowan has more “class” somehow.
Have you thought of Rowland?

Rowan

Rowland Rat!

Roman gets a bit fat no from me, I have only ever met one Roman and he was the most obnoxious teenager I have had the misfortune to meet the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Rowan for me

Rowan only recently used for girls? How recently do you mean?
My dd is Rowan, named after a friend who is now mid 50s.
There's a well known school series,( think Malory Towers etc ) with a female Rowan, written in the 1940s.

Anyway, Rowan for a girl, Rohan for a boy. A Rowan is a little flowering tree, not very macho.

Rowan Williams and Rowan Atkinson did ok with the name.
Rohan is a range of clothing.
Roman? Polanski.
Ronan? Keating.

Rowan.

I don’t find it feminine in the least.

Name records show vastly more male than female Rowans so I think there’s a bit of defensiveness going on on this thread!

And save me from anything “macho”!

Roan is an adjective that describes an animal's coat colour. It's pronounced Rone.

there was a girl character in a school story series called Rowan back in the 1940s (Antonia Forest). Now, she did give another girl character a boy's name (Lawrie) but that was all made clear in the books. The fact that no mention was made of Rowan's name being male suggests to me that in the 1940s Rowan was an accepted girls' name.

Rowan Pelling (woman editor of The Erotic Review) also comes to mind.

It's a tree at the end of the day, isn't it?!

Interesting..now I've looked it up and there are twice as many male Rowans.
It must be a regional thing. I know six female Rowans and one male. Four of the girls are Rowan Elizabeth. The male Rowan is quite high profile though,as he is very spirited and his mother is constantly shouting his name.
I didn't know Rohan was a clothing brand, I was thinking of the horsemen in TLOTR.
Ronan is okay, a saints name.

Rowan

I don't really like Ronan.

I also know a Rohan.

I also know a Rohan.

Is he called Theoden King? Or Eomer?

Rowan is the girl who was up for sacrifice in the Wicker Man, that’s the only time I’ve ever heard it used for a girl.

I really like it for either sex though. Ronan is a bit weak, reminds me of Keating who is a bit wet and apparently not very nice in real life.

rivertam if she has another boy she van call it Gondor.

...Get my jacket while you're over there.

Rohan is the name of a boy I lost a drawing competition to in 1987. Don’t like it.

Rowan

Ronan