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The BOWNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,093 22078 0 4
United States (1880 census) 645 7877 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +448 -14201 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 21 49484 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BOWNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 110 8999 0.001 13
New York 104 18016 0.001 5
Michigan 99 12709 0.001 10
California 82 27519 0.000 2
Florida 69 23530 0.000 4
Top States for BOWNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 36 4589 0.003 29
South Dakota 19 7097 0.003 25
Idaho 27 6731 0.002 21
New Jersey 110 8999 0.001 13
Maine 13 10312 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of BOWNE

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

Ethnic distribution of BOWNE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 20 1.83
Mixed Race 13 1.19
White (Hispanic) 11 1.01
White (Caucasian) 1,040 95.15
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 BOWNE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of BOWNE in historical publications

BOWNE. In a document of the XA. cent, the name of Bohun is thus spelt. Sussex Arch. Coll, iii., 187. It also means ready, prepared. Jamieson.

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 BOWNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOWNE.

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 BOWNE

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