How common is the surname Clow?

2,751 people in the United States had the surname Clow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,230 Americans. It ranked 11,448th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Clow getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,808 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,751 in 2010, down 2.0%.

The surname Clow

A surname, carried by 2,751 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clow is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,751 people named Clow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,230 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,808.

#11,448

rank among US surnames

2,751

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-2%

change since 2000 (was #10,494)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,440	Wehr	2,753	112,149
#11,443	Nygaard	2,752	112,190
#11,448	Mancillas	2,751	112,230
#11,456	Greenbaum	2,750	112,271

Who is named Clow

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

91% of people named Clow identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Clow

Clow has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

Questions

How common is the surname Clow?: 2,751 people in the United States had the surname Clow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,230 Americans. It ranked 11,448th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Clow?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Clow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Clow getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,808 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,751 in 2010, down 2.0%.