Stowe

Stowe is the 3,417th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,208 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 29,300.

By the numbers

People: 10,208
Rank: 3,417th
How common: 1 in 29,300
Per 100,000: 3.4

Where the name comes from

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“place”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)American abolitionist and author
Madeleine Stowe (born 1958)American actress
Emily Stowe (1831–1903)Canadian physician
William Stowe (1940–2016)American rower

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

Surnames like Stowe

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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.