The BOWDEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,677	1373	0.009	88
United States (1880 census)	5,004	1223	0.01	100
Change since 1880	+18673	-150	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	3,516	424	0.022	215
United Kingdom	10,654	557	0.023	232

Top States for BOWDEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,933	1335	0.009	93
North Carolina	1,737	700	0.022	216
Florida	1,553	1376	0.010	97
California	1,485	2198	0.004	44
Georgia	1,388	790	0.017	170
Top States for BOWDEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	669	329	0.052	525
Delaware	307	395	0.039	392
Alabama	1,249	628	0.028	281
Utah	500	573	0.022	224
North Carolina	1,737	700	0.022	216

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

Classification and Origin of BOWDEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	372	1.57
Mixed Race	334	1.41
Asian/Pacific	116	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	107	0.45
White (Caucasian)	17,670	74.63
Black/African American	5,079	21.45

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

Similar names to BOWDEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWDEN.

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.