Bowers

62,913 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bowers in the 2020 census, making it the 525th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,751.

By the numbers

People: 62,913
Rank: 525th
How common: 1 in 4,751
Per 100,000: 21.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bowers

Henry Robertson Bowers (1883–1912)Royal Navy officer and explorer
John Bowers (1885–1936)American stage and silent film actor
Jack Bowers (1908–1970)English footballer
Charles Bowers (1889–1946)American cartoonist and actor
David Bowers (born 1970)British animator and film director

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

Surnames like Bowers

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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.