Bower

At the 2020 census, 20,433 Americans bore the surname Bower — 1,718th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,600.

By the numbers

People: 20,433
Rank: 1,718th
How common: 1 in 14,600
Per 100,000: 6.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bower

Jamie Campbell Bower (born 1988)British actor
Frederick Orpen Bower (1855–1948)British botanist
Tom Bower (1938–2024)American actor
Johnny Bower (1924–2017)Canadian ice hockey player
Carol Bower (born 1956)American rower
Walter Bower (1385–1450)Scottish chronicler

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

Surnames like Bower

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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.