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The MOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 546 38141 0 2
United States (1880 census) 357 12516 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +189 -25625 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 64 20746 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MOW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 86 22863 0.000 3
Hawaii 57 1569 0.005 47
Indiana 49 11872 0.001 8
Michigan 38 28050 0.000 4
Texas 38 28945 0.000 2
Top States for MOW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 57 1569 0.005 47
Alaska 12 7276 0.002 19
Montana 9 13794 0.001 10
Indiana 49 11872 0.001 8
Delaware 4 26418 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of MOW

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MOW surname.

Ethnic distribution of MOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 322 58.97
Asian/Pacific 183 33.52
Mixed Race 19 3.48
White (Hispanic) 19 3.48
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

MOW is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of MOW in historical publications

MOW. Of that Ilk, now called Moll, in

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 MOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOW.

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 MOW

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