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The BOWE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,510 4957 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,371 4153 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +5139 -804 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 517 3115 0.003 32
United Kingdom 1,332 4140 0.003 29
Top States for BOWE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,050 478 0.020 196
Florida 509 4006 0.003 32
New York 458 4231 0.002 24
Ohio 408 3447 0.004 36
California 348 7813 0.001 10
Top States for BOWE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 1,050 478 0.020 196
Delaware 84 1710 0.011 107
West Virginia 133 1909 0.007 74
Minnesota 253 2471 0.005 51
Washington DC 27 2207 0.005 47

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BOWE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOWE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOWE in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOWE by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOWE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOWE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BOWE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BOWE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 114 1.75
White (Hispanic) 82 1.26
Asian/Pacific 29 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.29
White (Caucasian) 5,067 77.83
Black/African American 1,199 18.42

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BOWE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BOWE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BOWE.

Similar names to BOWE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BOWE

The following words are slight variants of BOWE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.