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The BOWERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,509 8628 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 809 6486 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +2700 -2142 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 523 3076 0.003 32
United Kingdom 1,026 5167 0.002 22
Top States for BOWERMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 659 1650 0.007 66
California 320 8183 0.001 9
Texas 257 7169 0.001 12
New York 185 10086 0.001 10
Florida 172 10324 0.001 11
Top States for BOWERMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 659 1650 0.007 66
Arkansas 149 2311 0.006 56
Alaska 20 4398 0.003 32
Oklahoma 107 4061 0.003 31
North Dakota 15 7288 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of BOWERMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOWERMAN 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 BOWERMAN 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 BOWERMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 72 2.05
Black/African American 63 1.8
Mixed Race 49 1.4
Asian/Pacific 14 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.31
White (Caucasian) 3,300 94.04

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

Meaning of BOWERMAN in historical publications

BOWERMAN. A Chamberlain. See

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BOWERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWERMAN.

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 BOWERMAN

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