The HARLOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,128	2975	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	4,070	1514	0.008	81
Change since 1880	+7058	-1461	-0.004	-40
Other Countries
Australia	365	4342	0.002	22
United Kingdom	1,878	3122	0.004	41

Top States for HARLOW by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	1,258	657	0.018	178
California	790	3657	0.002	23
Texas	780	2841	0.004	37
Kentucky	603	939	0.015	149
Ohio	583	2301	0.005	51
Top States for HARLOW by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	129	753	0.021	212
Virginia	1,258	657	0.018	178
Maine	224	1094	0.018	176
Kentucky	603	939	0.015	149
West Virginia	147	1684	0.008	81

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

Classification and Origin of HARLOW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	169	1.52
Black/African American	109	0.98
Mixed Race	105	0.94
Native American/Alaskan	73	0.66
Asian/Pacific	50	0.45
White (Caucasian)	10,622	95.45

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

Similar names to HARLOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARLOW.

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.