The COWIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,718	15619	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	246	16594	0	5
Change since 1880	+1472	+975	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	1,102	1509	0.007	67
United Kingdom	5,472	1147	0.012	119

Top States for COWIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	236	11116	0.001	7
New York	165	11813	0.001	9
Florida	133	13590	0.001	8
Ohio	102	12996	0.001	9
Michigan	95	13519	0.001	10
Top States for COWIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	50	3802	0.004	39
Montana	18	8210	0.002	20
Arizona	72	7980	0.001	14
Massachusetts	85	9387	0.001	13
West Virginia	24	6400	0.001	13

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COWIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	95	5.53
Mixed Race	37	2.15
White (Hispanic)	28	1.63
White (Caucasian)	1,550	90.22
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 COWIE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to COWIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COWIE.

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.