Sowa

Sowa is the 11,742nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,552 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 117,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,552
Rank: 11,742nd
How common: 1 in 117,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

Origin Polish

From Polish Sowa, from Polish sowa (“owl”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Sowa

Hiroshi Sowa (born 1956)Japanese association football player and manager

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

Surnames like Sowa

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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.