The surname Cowie
A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,806 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex C000
Origin
Scottish Gaelic origin
From Gaelic colldha (“hazel”).
Cowie is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,806 people named Cowie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,955 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,718.
Who is named Cowie
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Cowie identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Cowie
Cowie has the Soundex code C000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C000.
Other Scottish Gaelic surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Cowie come from?
- From Gaelic colldha (“hazel”).
- How common is the surname Cowie?
- 1,806 people in the United States had the surname Cowie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,955 Americans. It ranked 16,051st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cowie?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Cowie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Cowie?
- Cowie is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Cowie getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,718 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,806 in 2010, up 5.1%.