Howe
39,912 people in the United States were counted with the surname Howe in the 2020 census, making it the 846th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,489.
By the numbers
- People
- 39,912
- Rank
- 846th
- How common
- 1 in 7,489
- Per 100,000
- 13.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Middle English
As an English surname, from Middle English hoʒe (“steep ridge”), a late variant of hōge, dative case of Old English hoh (“hock, heel”), with likely influence from Old Norse haugr (“hill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Howe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Howe
- Gordie Howe (1928–2016)Canadian ice hockey player
- Elias Howe (1819–1866)American inventor
- Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
- Eddie Howe (born 1977)English association football player and manager
- William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814)British General in the American War of Independence
- Geoffrey Howe (1926–2015)British politician
- Steve Howe (born 1947)English guitarist
- James Wong Howe (1899–1976)Chinese-American film director and cinematographer
People named Howe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Howe
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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.