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The GARROW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,679 10904 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 312 13864 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +2367 +2960 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 83 16741 0.001 5
United Kingdom 387 10693 0.001 8
Top States for GARROW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 622 3291 0.003 33
Michigan 279 4562 0.003 28
Vermont 193 515 0.032 317
Florida 172 11138 0.001 11
California 139 18007 0.000 4
Top States for GARROW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 193 515 0.032 317
New York 622 3291 0.003 33
Michigan 279 4562 0.003 28
New Hampshire 32 5358 0.003 26
South Dakota 18 7636 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of GARROW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 138 5.15
Black/African American 66 2.46
Mixed Race 53 1.98
White (Hispanic) 33 1.23
Asian/Pacific 12 0.45
White (Caucasian) 2,377 88.73

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

Meaning of GARROW in historical publications

GARROW. Probably local ; but Arthur derives it from the British garo, fierce, keen, rough.

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 GARROW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARROW.

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 GARROW

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