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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

'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.

Meaning of BOWIE in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BOWIE

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