The DOWE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,784	15167	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	348	12777	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+1436	-2390	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	194	7773	0.001	12
United Kingdom	362	11205	0.001	8

Top States for DOWE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	183	12712	0.001	10
Florida	167	12965	0.001	10
North Carolina	106	7771	0.001	13
Michigan	98	15644	0.001	10
New Jersey	91	13166	0.001	11
Top States for DOWE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	38	5262	0.003	30
Washington DC	17	3992	0.003	30
Mississippi	58	5368	0.002	20
New Hampshire	20	9240	0.002	16
Connecticut	54	10454	0.002	16

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

Classification and Origin of DOWE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	970	54.37
Black/African American	733	41.09
Mixed Race	40	2.24
White (Hispanic)	26	1.46
Asian/Pacific	15	0.84
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to DOWE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWE.

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.