Bowles

Bowles is the 1,570th most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,282 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,282
Rank: 1,570th
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Variant of Bowell with post-medieval excrescent -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.4%
Black, not Hispanic 13.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Bowles

Paul Bowles (1910–1999)American composer and writer
Stan Bowles (1948–2024)English footballer
Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939)British Army officer; first husband of Queen Camilla
Jane Bowles (1917–1973)American novelist, playwright
Chester Bowles (1901–1986)American politician
Peter Bowles (1936–2022)English actor
Tom Parker Bowles (born 1974)son of Camilla, queen of the United Kingdom
Samuel Bowles (born 1939)American economist

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

Surnames like Bowles

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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.