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The LOWRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,506 1323 0.009 91
United States (1880 census) 7,932 758 0.016 159
Change since 1880 +16574 -565 -0.007 -68
Other Countries
Australia 1,072 1544 0.007 66
United Kingdom 3,365 1853 0.007 73
Top States for LOWRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,040 1248 0.010 98
California 1,892 1742 0.006 56
Ohio 1,601 816 0.014 141
Florida 1,368 1503 0.009 86
Pennsylvania 1,199 1173 0.010 98
Top States for LOWRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 603 757 0.017 175
Montana 155 646 0.017 172
Idaho 206 812 0.016 159
Wyoming 77 711 0.016 156
Utah 324 927 0.015 145

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

Classification and Origin of LOWRY

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 LOWRY 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 LOWRY 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 LOWRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 853 3.48
White (Hispanic) 397 1.62
Mixed Race 392 1.6
Asian/Pacific 110 0.45
White (Caucasian) 21,232 86.64
Black/African American 1,522 6.21

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

Meaning of LOWRY in historical publications

LOWRY. Frequently written Lewry, In Normandy there are two places called Lorei — one in the arroudissement of Evreux, the other in the Cotentin. At the making of Domesday, Hugh de Luri held lands in capite, CO. Dorset. Another Norman patriarch, William Leurie, (without the territorial prefix) was a tenant in chief in cos. Oxon, Glouc, and Essex. But see Lowrie. Some Lowrys claim descent from the Scottish family of Laurie, of Maxwelton, near Dumfries, whose name was variously written Laurie, Lawrey, Lawrj', Lowry, Lowrey, and Lowray. B.L.G.

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 LOWRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOWRY.

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 LOWRY

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