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The BOWLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 642 33528 0 2
United States (1880 census) 346 12846 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +296 -20682 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 29 38644 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BOWLEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 88 8560 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 75 19659 0.001 6
Missouri 70 10105 0.001 13
Massachusetts 49 15739 0.001 8
Texas 29 39977 0.000 1
Top States for BOWLEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 88 8560 0.001 14
New Hampshire 17 9119 0.001 14
Vermont 8 9521 0.001 13
Missouri 70 10105 0.001 13
Nevada 20 11265 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of BOWLEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BOWLEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of BOWLEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 599 93.3
Mixed Race 15 2.34
Black/African American 14 2.18
White (Hispanic) 9 1.4
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

BOWLEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BOWLEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOWLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWLEN.

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 BOWLEN

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