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The HOWIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,510 6871 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 599 8329 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +3911 +1458 +0.001 +5
Other Countries
Australia 1,065 1552 0.007 65
United Kingdom 3,567 1757 0.008 78
Top States for HOWIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 626 2047 0.008 78
California 305 9537 0.001 9
New York 236 8966 0.001 12
Florida 225 9174 0.001 14
Texas 212 9313 0.001 10
Top States for HOWIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 626 2047 0.008 78
Delaware 38 3920 0.005 48
Mississippi 119 3089 0.004 42
South Dakota 31 4793 0.004 41
South Carolina 151 3753 0.004 38

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

Classification and Origin of HOWIE

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 HOWIE 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 HOWIE 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 HOWIE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 743 16.47
White (Hispanic) 75 1.66
Mixed Race 60 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.49
Asian/Pacific 11 0.24
White (Caucasian) 3,599 79.8

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

Meaning of HOWIE in historical publications

HOWIE. Supposed to be a corruption of the Fr. surname Hauy : another derivation is from the Scot. Jiowe a hollow.

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 HOWIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWIE.

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 HOWIE

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