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The FOWLER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 102,620 267 0.038 380
United States (1880 census) 26,019 193 0.052 520
Change since 1880 +76601 -74 -0.014 -140
Other Countries
Australia 4,439 331 0.027 272
United Kingdom 20,036 275 0.044 436
Top States for FOWLER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 8,497 283 0.041 407
California 6,845 460 0.020 202
Georgia 6,661 121 0.081 814
Florida 6,555 266 0.041 410
South Carolina 5,896 72 0.147 1,470
Top States for FOWLER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 5,896 72 0.147 1,470
Alabama 3,881 157 0.087 873
Georgia 6,661 121 0.081 814
Arkansas 1,885 160 0.071 705
North Carolina 5,586 166 0.069 694

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

Classification and Origin of FOWLER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 985 0.96
Asian/Pacific 410 0.4
White (Caucasian) 85,524 83.34
Black/African American 12,643 12.32
Mixed Race 1,570 1.53
White (Hispanic) 1,488 1.45

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

Meaning of FOWLER in historical publications

FOWLER. A bird-catcher ; a destroyer of birds by any method, whether with net, bird-bolt, or " fowling-piece." Le Fowelere. 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 FOWLER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOWLER.

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 FOWLER

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