Row: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Rowe surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

What Row means

Row? Think of it as Rowe with a different pen. Name scholars give the meaning as “Dweller by a hedgerow, or from Rolf”.

Row drops the “e” of Rowe, a simplification that clerks often made. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Roe. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Row with 2,430 bearers, at rank 12,703.

Get the complete Row report, with a museum-style coat of arms.