The BOWIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,943	3036	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	2,452	2489	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+8491	-547	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	588	2767	0.004	36
United Kingdom	2,590	2383	0.006	56

Top States for BOWIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,155	2200	0.006	55
Maryland	966	617	0.018	182
California	757	4142	0.002	22
Louisiana	719	977	0.016	161
Florida	499	4327	0.003	31
Top States for BOWIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	284	953	0.022	223
Maryland	966	617	0.018	182
Washington DC	100	666	0.017	175
Louisiana	719	977	0.016	161
Mississippi	356	1279	0.013	125

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

Classification and Origin of BOWIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	230	2.1
Mixed Race	192	1.75
Native American/Alaskan	91	0.83
Asian/Pacific	32	0.29
Black/African American	5,452	49.82
White (Caucasian)	4,946	45.2

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

Similar names to BOWIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWIE.

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.