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The SOWARDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,403 8853 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 389 11754 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +3014 +2901 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SOWARDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 610 2578 0.005 54
West Virginia 516 597 0.029 285
Kentucky 218 2663 0.005 54
Florida 202 10247 0.001 13
California 142 18791 0.000 4
Top States for SOWARDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 516 597 0.029 285
Kentucky 218 2663 0.005 54
Ohio 610 2578 0.005 54
Colorado 120 5184 0.003 28
Alaska 16 7415 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 SOWARDS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SOWARDS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SOWARDS in Ohio than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SOWARDS by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SOWARDS

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

Ethnic distribution of SOWARDS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 41 1.2
White (Hispanic) 37 1.09
Mixed Race 32 0.94
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.71
Asian/Pacific 5 0.15
White (Caucasian) 3,264 95.92

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

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

Meaning of SOWARDS in historical publications

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

Similar names to SOWARDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOWARDS.

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 SOWARDS

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