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The BOWSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,071 2356 0.005 52
United States (1880 census) 2,690 2264 0.005 54
Change since 1880 +11381 -92 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 92 15325 0.001 6
United Kingdom 576 8044 0.001 13
Top States for BOWSER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 3,584 322 0.029 292
Ohio 1,305 1092 0.011 115
Florida 724 3034 0.005 45
California 683 4537 0.002 20
Maryland 661 969 0.012 125
Top States for BOWSER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 3,584 322 0.029 292
Maryland 661 969 0.012 125
Ohio 1,305 1092 0.011 115
Delaware 71 2120 0.009 91
Kansas 210 1591 0.008 78

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

Classification and Origin of BOWSER

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 BOWSER 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 BOWSER 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 BOWSER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 207 1.47
White (Hispanic) 174 1.24
Asian/Pacific 44 0.31
Native American/Alaskan 42 0.3
White (Caucasian) 10,731 76.26
Black/African American 2,873 20.42

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

Meaning of BOWSER in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOWSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWSER.

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 BOWSER

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