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The BOWDITCH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 528 39240 0 2
United States (1880 census) 207 18812 0 4
Change since 1880 +321 -20428 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 319 4927 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,018 5204 0.002 22
Top States for BOWDITCH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 55 20289 0.001 6
Massachusetts 49 13912 0.001 8
Florida 45 30923 0.000 3
Ohio 37 28916 0.000 3
Maine 35 4414 0.003 27
Top States for BOWDITCH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 35 4414 0.003 27
New Hampshire 14 9776 0.001 11
Wyoming 4 13659 0.001 8
Massachusetts 49 13912 0.001 8
Michigan 55 20289 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 BOWDITCH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOWDITCH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOWDITCH in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOWDITCH by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOWDITCH

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 BOWDITCH 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 BOWDITCH 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 BOWDITCH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 444 84.09
Black/African American 66 12.5
Mixed Race 12 2.27
White (Hispanic) 5 0.95
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 BOWDITCH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BOWDITCH in historical publications

BOWDITCH. BOWDIDGE. An estate in Dorsetshire, possessed by the family at an early period.

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 BOWDITCH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWDITCH.

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 BOWDITCH

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