Howie

At the 2020 census, 3,855 Americans bore the surname Howie — 8,230th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 77,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,855
Rank: 8,230th
How common: 1 in 77,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.0%
Black, not Hispanic 17.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Howie

Also a first name

Howie has been given to 788 American babies as a first name since 1943, peaking in 1957. See it as a given name.

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.