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The BOWDISH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 636 33782 0 2
United States (1880 census) 361 12430 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +275 -21352 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 1 36910 0 0
Top States for BOWDISH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 66 19292 0.001 7
Washington 60 12013 0.001 10
New York 48 36931 0.000 3
California 45 47325 0.000 1
Florida 40 37690 0.000 3
Top States for BOWDISH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 9 7438 0.002 18
Vermont 8 9520 0.001 13
Washington 60 12013 0.001 10
Alaska 6 16777 0.001 10
Oregon 29 14202 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of BOWDISH

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BOWDISH surname.

Ethnic distribution of BOWDISH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 613 96.38
White (Hispanic) 11 1.73
Mixed Race 8 1.26
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

BOWDISH is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BOWDISH in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOWDISH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWDISH.

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 BOWDISH

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