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The FOWLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 940 24857 0 4
United States (1880 census) 550 8941 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +390 -15916 +N/A -7
Other Countries
Australia 54 24076 0 3
United Kingdom 759 6514 0.002 17
Top States for FOWLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 103 22797 0.000 3
Michigan 95 13535 0.001 10
Massachusetts 77 10350 0.001 12
Florida 62 26317 0.000 4
Wisconsin 60 14975 0.001 11
Top States for FOWLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 45 3904 0.004 36
Maine 38 4649 0.003 30
Delaware 19 7197 0.002 24
Massachusetts 77 10350 0.001 12
Vermont 7 11162 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of FOWLE

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 FOWLE 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 FOWLE 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 FOWLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 852 90.64
Black/African American 41 4.36
Asian/Pacific 18 1.91
White (Hispanic) 16 1.7
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 FOWLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FOWLE in historical publications

FOWLE. A bird of any species. Le Fowle. H.R.

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 FOWLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOWLE.

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 FOWLE

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