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The GOWERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 363 53420 0 1
United States (1880 census) 137 25282 0 3
Change since 1880 +226 -28138 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 134 10981 0.001 8
United Kingdom 1,034 5118 0.002 23
Top States for GOWERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 45 7947 0.001 10
Utah 40 5785 0.002 18
New Jersey 32 29909 0.000 4
Kentucky 27 11187 0.001 7
California 23 84052 0.000 1
Top States for GOWERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 40 5785 0.002 18
Alabama 45 7947 0.001 10
West Virginia 14 9269 0.001 8
Kentucky 27 11187 0.001 7
Wyoming 3 18087 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GOWERS

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 GOWERS 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 GOWERS 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 GOWERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 342 94.21
Black/African American 11 3.03
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GOWERS in historical publications

GOWERS. See Gower.

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 GOWERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOWERS.

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 GOWERS

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