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The FOWLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,443 17884 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 414 11192 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1029 -6692 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 339 4650 0.002 21
United Kingdom 1,748 3290 0.004 38
Top States for FOWLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 267 1214 0.012 120
California 132 19028 0.000 4
Maine 112 2147 0.009 88
Florida 87 20134 0.001 5
New York 80 24178 0.000 4
Top States for FOWLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 267 1214 0.012 120
Maine 112 2147 0.009 88
Wyoming 17 4280 0.003 34
Kansas 58 6035 0.002 22
Oregon 52 8753 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of FOWLES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 140 9.7
White (Hispanic) 23 1.59
Mixed Race 17 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.62
Asian/Pacific 6 0.42
White (Caucasian) 1,248 86.49

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

Meaning of FOWLES in historical publications

FOWLES. FOWLS. See Foulis.

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 FOWLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOWLES.

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 FOWLES

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