Snow

46,310 people in the United States were counted with the surname Snow in the 2020 census, making it the 729th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,454.

By the numbers

People: 46,310
Rank: 729th
How common: 1 in 6,454
Per 100,000: 15.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Snow

C. P. Snow (1905–1980)English novelist and physical chemist
John Snow (1813–1858)English epidemiologist and physician
Brittany Snow (born 1986)American actress and model
Aurora Snow (born 1981)American journalist, pornographic actress and director
Edgar Snow (1905–1972)American journalist
John W. Snow (born 1939)73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
Lorenzo Snow (1814–1901)President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Phoebe Snow (1952–2011)American singer, songwriter and guitarist

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

Surnames like Snow

Also a first name

Snow has been given to 1,133 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 2014. 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.