Rowe

67,831 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rowe in the 2020 census, making it the 483rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,407.

By the numbers

People: 67,831
Rank: 483rd
How common: 1 in 4,407
Per 100,000: 22.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from Middle English Rowe, from the noun row. Compare Rew and Rawe.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.4%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rowe

Emile Smith Rowe (born 2000)English association football player
Debbie Rowe (born 1958)former wife of Michael Jackson
Danielle Rowe (born 1990)British track cyclist
Camille Rowe (born 1990)French-American model
Luke Rowe (born 1990)Welsh racing cyclist
Jonathan Rowe (born 2003)British footballer
Mike Rowe (born 1962)American television personality
Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718)English poet, writer

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

Surnames like Rowe

Also a first name

Rowe has been given to 712 American babies as a first name since 1914, 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.