Rowland

Rowland is the 1,039th most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,181 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,008.

By the numbers

People: 33,181
Rank: 1,039th
How common: 1 in 9,008
Per 100,000: 11.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.4%
Black, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Rowland

F. Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012)American chemist
Kelly Rowland (born 1981)American singer, songwriter and actress
Henry Augustus Rowland (1848–1901)American physicist
Helen Rowland (1876–1950)American journalist
Rodney Rowland (born 1964)American actor
Mark Rowland (born 1963)athletics competitor
Oliver Rowland (born 1992)British racing driver
Kevin Rowland (born 1953)British singer

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

Surnames like Rowland

Also a first name

Rowland has been given to 4,279 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1917. 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.