The GOWDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,171	12955	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	788	6635	0.002	16
Change since 1880	+1383	-6320	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	35	33563	0	2
United Kingdom	415	10167	0.001	9

Top States for GOWDY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	211	1892	0.007	74
California	204	12414	0.001	6
Florida	126	14020	0.001	8
Texas	116	13768	0.001	6
Illinois	101	13161	0.001	8
Top States for GOWDY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	211	1892	0.007	74
South Carolina	84	5275	0.002	21
Alabama	83	5468	0.002	19
Oklahoma	64	6436	0.002	19
Iowa	54	8503	0.002	18

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GOWDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	762	35.1
Mixed Race	33	1.52
Native American/Alaskan	25	1.15
Asian/Pacific	14	0.64
White (Hispanic)	13	0.6
White (Caucasian)	1,324	60.99

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

Similar names to GOWDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOWDY.

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.