Marlowe

Marlowe is the 5,329th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,312 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,400.

By the numbers

People: 6,312
Rank: 5,329th
How common: 1 in 47,400
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)English dramatist, poet and translator
Hugh Marlowe (1911–1982)American actor
June Marlowe (1903–1984)American actress
Andrew W. Marlowe (born 1966)American screenwriter

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

Surnames like Marlowe

Also a first name

Marlowe has been given to 6,467 American babies as a first name since 1912, 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.