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The ROWLANDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,116 13229 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 421 11037 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1695 -2192 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 1,338 1226 0.008 82
United Kingdom 10,548 562 0.023 230
Top States for ROWLANDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 448 3207 0.004 36
New York 231 7844 0.001 12
Ohio 187 6784 0.002 16
California 186 12636 0.001 5
Florida 166 10375 0.001 10
Top States for ROWLANDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 448 3207 0.004 36
Ohio 187 6784 0.002 16
Washington 86 7967 0.001 15
Maine 17 7971 0.001 13
Vermont 8 10318 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of ROWLANDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 35 1.65
Mixed Race 23 1.09
Asian/Pacific 18 0.85
Black/African American 8 0.38
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.33
White (Caucasian) 2,025 95.7

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

Meaning of ROWLANDS in historical publications

ROWLANDS. See Rowlaucl.

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 ROWLANDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROWLANDS.

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 ROWLANDS

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