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The ROWLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,038 9822 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 553 8907 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +2485 -915 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 528 3052 0.003 32
United Kingdom 1,858 3152 0.004 40
Top States for ROWLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 806 1923 0.007 66
Ohio 296 4906 0.003 26
California 206 12699 0.001 6
Florida 176 10826 0.001 11
New York 166 11931 0.001 9
Top States for ROWLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 806 1923 0.007 66
Delaware 35 4120 0.004 45
Ohio 296 4906 0.003 26
Rhode Island 27 6130 0.003 26
Wyoming 12 6393 0.002 24

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ROWLES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ROWLES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ROWLES in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ROWLES by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ROWLES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROWLES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ROWLES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ROWLES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 192 6.32
Mixed Race 43 1.42
White (Hispanic) 28 0.92
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.66
Asian/Pacific 14 0.46
White (Caucasian) 2,741 90.22

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ROWLES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ROWLES in historical publications

ROWLES. See Rolle.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ROWLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROWLES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ROWLES

The following words are slight variants of ROWLES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.