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The FLOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 460 44103 0 2
United States (1880 census) 234 17147 0 5
Change since 1880 +226 -26956 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FLOW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 89 8124 0.001 11
Texas 68 22419 0.000 3
New York 52 37084 0.000 3
Florida 50 33701 0.000 3
Arkansas 33 8193 0.001 12
Top States for FLOW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 33 8193 0.001 12
North Carolina 89 8124 0.001 11
Oklahoma 26 14096 0.001 8
South Dakota 4 23380 0.001 5
Texas 68 22419 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of FLOW

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

Ethnic distribution of FLOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 377 81.96
Black/African American 69 15
White (Hispanic) 10 2.17
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FLOW in historical publications

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

Similar names to FLOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLOW.

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 FLOW

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