Cowley

At the 2020 census, 5,786 Americans bore the surname Cowley — 5,770th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 51,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,786
Rank: 5,770th
How common: 1 in 51,700
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Cowley

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)British writer
Gillian Cowley (born 1955)field hockey player
Patrick Cowley (1950–1982)American musician
Rhydian Cowley (born 1991)Australian male racewalker
Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989)American novelist
Hannah Cowley (1743–1809)English writer, dramatist, poet

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

Surnames like Cowley

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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.