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    The surname Blower

    An occupational surname, carried by 565 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B460

    Blower: #39,004 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Blower #39,004, 565 people Blower: #39,004 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Blower #39,004, 565 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blower is more common than 76% of them.

    Origin

    From blower, an occupational surname for someone who operated a bellows, or alternatively for someone who blew a horn.

    Blower is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 565 people named Blower in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. That is down 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 580.

    #39,004
    rank among US surnames
    565
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #36,421)

    Who is named Blower

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Blower identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Blower

    Blower has the Soundex code B460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B460.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Blower come from?
    From blower, an occupational surname for someone who operated a bellows, or alternatively for someone who blew a horn.
    How common is the surname Blower?
    565 people in the United States had the surname Blower in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 546,452 Americans. It ranked 39,004th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Blower?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Blower identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Blower?
    Blower is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Blower getting more or less common?
    Less common. 580 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 565 in 2010, down 2.6%.