Bigelow

At the 2020 census, 11,283 Americans bore the surname Bigelow — 3,110th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,283
Rank: 3,110th
How common: 1 in 26,500
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Habitational surname from a minor place in Cheshire, from Middle English big (“big”) + low (“mound, hill”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.3%
Black, not Hispanic 7.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow (born 1951)American filmmaker
Bam Bam Bigelow (1961–2007)American professional wrestler
Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879)American botanist, physician, and educational reformer
Robert Bigelow (born 1945)hotel and aerospace entrepreneur from the United States
Julian Bigelow (1913–2003)American computer scientist

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

Surnames like Bigelow

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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.