Lowe

At the 2020 census, 89,696 Americans bore the surname Lowe — 341st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,332.

By the numbers

People: 89,696
Rank: 341st
How common: 1 in 3,332
Per 100,000: 30.0

Where the name comes from

As an English and Scottish surname, spelling variant of Low.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.0%
Black, not Hispanic 19.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Lowe

Rob Lowe (born 1964)American actor
Crystal Lowe (born 1981)Canadian actress
Harold Lowe (1882–1944)British sailor
Chris Lowe (born 1959)British musician, singer, and member of Pet Shop Boys
Chaunté Lowe (born 1984)American high jumper
Douglas Lowe (1902–1981)British athlete
Wolfram Löwe (born 1945)East German footballer
Chad Lowe (born 1968)American actor and director

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

Surnames like Lowe

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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.