The COWEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,051	6237	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	2,858	2141	0.006	57
Change since 1880	+2193	-4096	-0.004	-38
Other Countries
Australia	758	2148	0.005	46
United Kingdom	2,257	2665	0.005	49

Top States for COWEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	566	5110	0.002	17
Texas	455	4704	0.002	22
Florida	359	5596	0.002	22
New York	359	5492	0.002	19
Michigan	229	5351	0.002	23
Top States for COWEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	156	3031	0.005	45
Wyoming	21	3162	0.004	43
Alabama	151	3751	0.003	34
Colorado	137	4093	0.003	32
Massachusetts	180	4727	0.003	28

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

Classification and Origin of COWEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	188	3.72
White (Hispanic)	96	1.9
Mixed Race	80	1.58
Asian/Pacific	28	0.55
Native American/Alaskan	26	0.51
White (Caucasian)	4,633	91.72

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

Similar names to COWEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COWEN.

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.