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The BOWDRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 535 38833 0 2
United States (1880 census) 121 27696 0 2
Change since 1880 +414 -11137 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BOWDRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 103 3665 0.004 36
Illinois 91 17704 0.001 7
Georgia 81 9267 0.001 10
California 50 50894 0.000 1
Missouri 50 15629 0.001 9
Top States for BOWDRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 103 3665 0.004 36
Georgia 81 9267 0.001 10
Missouri 50 15629 0.001 9
Illinois 91 17704 0.001 7
Colorado 11 47716 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of BOWDRY

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

Ethnic distribution of BOWDRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 489 91.4
White (Caucasian) 30 5.61
White (Hispanic) 8 1.5
Mixed Race 5 0.93
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 BOWDRY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of BOWDRY in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOWDRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWDRY.

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 BOWDRY

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