Rowing Family History
Rowing Name Meaning
probably from a variant spelling of The Rodings (Essex) occurring as Roing(e) Royng(e) Roeing and Rouing in the medieval period. The place-name means ‘the people of a man called Hroða’ from the Old English personal name Hrōða + the group-name suffix -ingas. Compare Roding .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016