Fowler

99,260 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fowler in the 2020 census, making it the 312th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,011.

By the numbers

People: 99,260
Rank: 312th
How common: 1 in 3,011
Per 100,000: 33.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From fowler. The medical term is named after Dr. George Ryerson Fowler, the German surgeon developer of the position.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 12.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Fowler

William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995)American nuclear physicist
Robbie Fowler (born 1975)English association football player and manager
Martin Fowler (born 1963)British programmer
Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944)English physicist
Alfred Fowler (1868–1940)British astronomer
Karen Joy Fowler (born 1950)American novelist, short story writer, editor
Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933)British lexicographer and linguist
Jeff Fowler (born 1978)American filmmaker

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

Surnames like Fowler

Fowlkes

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.