Lowell

6,252 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lowell in the 2020 census, making it the 5,385th most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,252
Rank: 5,385th
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Anglo-Norman

A Middle English diminutive of Old French lou + -el, meaning "little wolf". Akin to Wolfie.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Lowell

Percival Lowell (1855–1916)American astronomer
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874–1925)US writer
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)American poet
Carey Lowell (born 1961)American actress
Chris Lowell (born 1984)American actor
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943)American educator and legal scholar
Mike Lowell (born 1974)Puerto Rican/American baseball player

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

Surnames like Lowell

Also a first name

Lowell has been given to 41,677 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1931. 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.