Thoughts on Rowan for a baby girl?

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Hello! We are a Korean-British couple and we need a name for our baby girl, who is due this autumn.

We've been looking for a name that sounds lovely in both Korean and English and we quite like 'Rowan' atm.

It means 'paving the way' in Korean and it’s also androgynous. But many of our British colleagues have said that it sounds more like a boy's name - and of course, they've all mentioned Mr Bean.

I'm wondering how it would sound to young British people..!

Thank you so much for the comments❣️

Delightful name.

Good name for both sexes.
Also, there is Rowena.

It's a beautiful name

Beautiful choice

Love it! Lovely name for you little girl

It's a lovely unisex name IMO.

i think that if you need validation for a name from complete strangers then its not the name for your wee one...go with what YOU love

Why is the last syllable uh and not a?

It's a lovely name for a girl.

@Hollyhobbi , because -a/-ah endings tend to sound like that.
It's an unstressed syllable, so it's a shwa (uh) sound.

Rowan is Row-un not Row-ahn for the same reason. Rowana would be Row-ah-na, because the first a is in a stressed syllable.

Not in Ireland they don’t!

@Hollyhobbi , I said 'tend to' and OP asked how it would sound to young British people.

I’m Irish and disagree actually.
I’d say Row-un too. It’s the first syllable in Rowan that’s stressed, at least in my Irish accent. But it probably varies a bit.

Love it

I love it. I know a female Rowan and always thought it was a female name until Rowan Atkinson!

Beautiful, classic, great meaning, works in both your languages …. sounds like the right name to me!

Lovely.

I think it’s fine for a girl, it’s a lovely name

I love it. We would have used it if we'd had another baby, boy or girl.

I like it!

Rowan is a really lovely name! Great choice - attractive nature name, easy to pronounce, not over-used, and with the lovely Korean connection and meaning it sounds perfect.

Lovely for a girl.

Beautiful name

I know a female Rowan who is in her 60s and a male Rowan who is in his 40s.
It’s a lovely name.

I also love Rowena for a girl.

I wanted to call Dd Rowan dh really didn't like it, said it was too "out there" anyway i think it is a lovely name for a girl and the Korean meaning is fab don't think it is a particular masuline name either.