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The ROWSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,140 21395 0 4
United States (1880 census) 317 13702 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +823 -7693 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ROWSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 124 6253 0.002 18
Mississippi 115 3019 0.004 40
West Virginia 97 2448 0.005 54
Tennessee 86 6757 0.002 15
Florida 77 21900 0.000 5
Top States for ROWSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 97 2448 0.005 54
Mississippi 115 3019 0.004 40
Montana 21 7027 0.002 23
Delaware 18 7883 0.002 23
Virginia 124 6253 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of ROWSEY

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

Ethnic distribution of ROWSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 915 80.26
Black/African American 182 15.96
Mixed Race 18 1.58
White (Hispanic) 14 1.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of ROWSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to ROWSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROWSEY.

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 ROWSEY

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