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The BOWER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,705 1516 0.008 80
United States (1880 census) 8,679 692 0.017 174
Change since 1880 +13026 -824 -0.009 -94
Other Countries
Australia 1,593 1022 0.01 97
United Kingdom 5,809 1083 0.013 126
Top States for BOWER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 2,995 382 0.024 244
California 1,793 1840 0.005 53
Ohio 1,696 770 0.015 149
Florida 1,207 1729 0.008 76
New York 1,066 1750 0.006 56
Top States for BOWER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 2,995 382 0.024 244
Wyoming 103 513 0.021 209
Idaho 196 866 0.015 151
Ohio 1,696 770 0.015 149
Indiana 874 845 0.014 144

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

Classification and Origin of BOWER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 328 1.51
White (Hispanic) 317 1.46
Mixed Race 237 1.09
Asian/Pacific 104 0.48
Native American/Alaskan 93 0.43
White (Caucasian) 20,628 95.04

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

Meaning of BOWER in historical publications

• BOWER. A Scotticism for Bowyer. Also a room in a feudal mansion. See under Borrer.

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 BOWER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWER.

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 BOWER

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