Bowes

4,934 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bowes in the 2020 census, making it the 6,591st most common in the country. That is about one person in 60,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,934
Rank: 6,591st
How common: 1 in 60,600
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

First attested as Bogas (1148). Probably from Old English boga/Old Norse bogi (“a bow”), in this case suggesting an arched bridge. Or else from an early cel-bry-pro root meaning "a bend".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.7%
Black, not Hispanic 6.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Bowes

Try it on yourself

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.