Rowley

Rowley is the 2,320th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,325 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,500.

By the numbers

People: 15,325
Rank: 2,320th
How common: 1 in 19,500
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English components ruh (rough, overgrown) + leah (wood, clearing).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rowley

Keith Rowley (born 1949)politician from Trinidad and Tobago
Stan Rowley (1876–1924)Australian sprinter
Janet Rowley (1925–2013)American human geneticist
Jack Rowley (1920–1998)English footballer and manager
William Rowley (1585–1626)English Jacobean dramatist
Arthur Rowley (1926–2002)English footballer and manager
Coleen Rowley (born 1954)American FBI agent, whistleblower, political candidate for Congress

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

Surnames like Rowley

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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.