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The PLOWMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,552 8539 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 769 6798 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +2783 -1741 -0.001 -2
Other Countries
Australia 514 3134 0.003 31
United Kingdom 1,611 3530 0.004 35
Top States for PLOWMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 307 4879 0.002 25
Michigan 260 4546 0.003 26
California 248 10286 0.001 7
Texas 244 7529 0.001 12
North Carolina 181 4704 0.002 22
Top States for PLOWMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 146 2721 0.005 50
Alabama 157 3572 0.004 35
Kentucky 142 3362 0.004 35
Maine 41 4287 0.003 32
Michigan 260 4546 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of PLOWMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 55 1.55
Mixed Race 37 1.04
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.48
Asian/Pacific 9 0.25
Black/African American 6 0.17
White (Caucasian) 3,428 96.51

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

Meaning of PLOWMAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PLOWMAN.

Similar names to PLOWMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLOWMAN.

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 PLOWMAN

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