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The BOWN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,986 13931 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 617 8147 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1369 -5784 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 369 4292 0.002 23
United Kingdom 2,736 2270 0.006 60
Top States for BOWN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 339 1165 0.015 152
California 152 20171 0.000 4
Illinois 128 13590 0.001 10
Ohio 126 13423 0.001 11
Iowa 118 4792 0.004 40
Top States for BOWN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 339 1165 0.015 152
South Dakota 41 4099 0.005 54
Iowa 118 4792 0.004 40
Wisconsin 93 12433 0.002 17
Nevada 33 8793 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of BOWN

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 BOWN 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 BOWN 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 BOWN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 244 12.29
White (Hispanic) 29 1.46
Mixed Race 28 1.41
Asian/Pacific 14 0.7
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.4
White (Caucasian) 1,663 83.74

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

Meaning of BOWN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOWN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWN.

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 BOWN

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