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The LOWEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,021 23283 0 4
United States (1880 census) 160 22709 0 3
Change since 1880 +861 -574 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 144 10255 0.001 9
United Kingdom 400 10430 0.001 9
Top States for LOWEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 121 19068 0.000 4
Florida 92 18039 0.001 6
Oregon 67 6328 0.002 20
New York 66 27051 0.000 3
Michigan 62 19753 0.001 6
Top States for LOWEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 16 6049 0.003 26
Montana 20 6951 0.002 22
Oregon 67 6328 0.002 20
West Virginia 17 8038 0.001 9
Oklahoma 28 12019 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of LOWEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 898 87.95
Black/African American 53 5.19
White (Hispanic) 34 3.33
Mixed Race 20 1.96
Asian/Pacific 9 0.88
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.69

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

Meaning of LOWEN in historical publications

LOWEN. See Lewin.

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 LOWEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOWEN.

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 LOWEN

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