Barrow

16,556 people in the United States were counted with the surname Barrow in the 2020 census, making it the 2,127th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,556
Rank: 2,127th
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

English surname, from placenames derived from Old English bearu (“grove”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Barrow described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.8%
Black, not Hispanic 26.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Barrow

Adama Barrow (born 1965)3rd President of the Gambia
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677)English Christian theologian, and mathematician
Dean Barrow (born 1951)Prime Minister of Belize from 2008 to 2020
John Barrow (1952–2020)British physicist and mathematician
Musa Barrow (born 1998)Gambian association football player
John Barrow (1764–1848)English statesman
Errol Barrow (1920–1987)Barbadian politician
Clyde Barrow (1909–1934)American bank robber

People named Barrow with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Barrow

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.