Bowler

At the 2020 census, 4,500 Americans bore the surname Bowler — 7,159th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 66,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,500
Rank: 7,159th
How common: 1 in 66,400
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

English occupational surname for a maker or seller of bowls, dishes and cups, from Middle English bollere.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Bowler

Grant Bowler (born 1968)New Zealand–Australian actor and television presenter
Adolph Bowler (1889–1962)Prime Minister of Latvia
Peter J. Bowler (born 1944)Irish historian of biology

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

Surnames like Bowler

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.