Entry № 2917 · Cornish origin

Elowen Elowen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EL-oh-wen /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Cornish
Meaning
"Elm tree (Cornish nature name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Cornish)

A name that means "elm tree (cornish nature name)".

Elowen is from the Cornish elowen — meaning elm tree. The name is part of the broader 2020s American revival of Cornish-language given names alongside Tamsin, Demelza, and Lowen — names that emerged from the Cornish language revival movement of the 20th-21st centuries. The Elm tree has been a symbol of strength, intuition, and connection between worlds in Celtic and Norse mythology; in Old English the elm was associated with the wisdom of grandmothers. Elowen Brookman — modern American Instagram-influencer-driven naming.

Elm tree (Cornish).

The name in its native script.

Elowen
Transliteration
Elowen
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛl.oʊ.wɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Elowen stands.

Elowen does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Elowens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Elowen
Cornish nature name.

Names connected to Elowen.

The number behind Elowen.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Elowen reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.