Marlow

Marlow is the 2,817th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,433 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,000.

By the numbers

People: 12,433
Rank: 2,817th
How common: 1 in 24,000
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English mere (“lake, pool”) + hlǣw (“mountain, hill”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Marlow

Slava Marlow (born 1999)Russian music producer, rapper and YouTuber
Ellen Marlow (born 1994)American actress

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

Surnames like Marlow

Also a first name

Marlow has been given to 4,096 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 2025. 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.