How common is the surname Bowker?

3,980 people in the United States had the surname Bowker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,574 Americans. It ranked 8,328th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bowker?

In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Bowker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Bowker getting more or less common?

More common. 3,954 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,980 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Bowker

A surname, carried by 3,980 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bowker is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,980 people named Bowker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,574 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,954.

#8,328

rank among US surnames

3,980

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #7,747)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,320	Michalak	3,983	77,516
#8,322	Kantor	3,982	77,535
#8,323	Fleischer	3,981	77,555
#8,328	Bowker	3,980	77,574
#8,330	Sawicki	3,977	77,633
#8,332	Hollar	3,976	77,652
#8,333	Kapp	3,974	77,691

Who is named Bowker

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

90% of people named Bowker identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 90%
American Indian and Alaska Native 3.2%
Two or more races 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bowker

Bowker has the Soundex code B260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B260.

Questions

How common is the surname Bowker?: 3,980 people in the United States had the surname Bowker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,574 Americans. It ranked 8,328th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bowker?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Bowker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Bowker getting more or less common?: More common. 3,954 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,980 in 2010, up 0.7%.