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The SOWERBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 297 62961 0 1
United States (1880 census) 44 52672 0 1
Change since 1880 +253 -10289 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 150 9834 0.001 9
United Kingdom 2,609 2368 0.006 57
Top States for SOWERBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 47 22644 0.000 5
Florida 45 29590 0.000 3
California 26 65569 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 21 52044 0.000 2
Maine 17 7600 0.001 13
Top States for SOWERBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 17 7600 0.001 13
Michigan 47 22644 0.000 5
Utah 10 15761 0.000 4
Montana 3 34221 0.000 3
New Hampshire 4 32948 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of SOWERBY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 265 89.23
Black/African American 24 8.08
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SOWERBY in historical publications

SOWERBY. Parishes, &c., in cos. Cumberland, York, Westmoreland, &c.

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 SOWERBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SOWERBY.

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 SOWERBY

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