Meadows

At the 2020 census, 42,694 Americans bore the surname Meadows — 788th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,001.

By the numbers

People: 42,694
Rank: 788th
How common: 1 in 7,001
Per 100,000: 14.3

Where the name comes from

Variant of Meadow, with the patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.2%
Black, not Hispanic 13.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Meadows

Donella Meadows (1941–2001)American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
Tim Meadows (born 1961)American actor and comedian
Mark Meadows (born 1959)White House Chief of Staff from 2020 to 2021
Earle Meadows (1913–1992)American athlete
Audrey Meadows (1922–1996)American actress
Jayne Meadows (1919–2015)Chinese born-American actress and author
Dennis Meadows (born 1942)American scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, widely known as a coauthor of The Limits to Growth
Jenny Meadows (born 1981)British athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Meadows

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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.