How common is the surname Gower?

6,554 people in the United States had the surname Gower in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,108 Americans. It ranked 5,317th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gower?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gower identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Gower?

Andre Gower, American actor, followed by Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland.

Where is the surname Gower most common?

Wikidata records people named Gower in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

How do you pronounce Gower?

Gower is /ˈɡaʊɚ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Gower getting more or less common?

More common. 6,469 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,554 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Gower

A surname, carried by 6,554 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈɡaʊɚ/ 2 syllables Soundex G600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gower is more common than 96.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,554 people named Gower in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,108 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,469.

#5,317

rank among US surnames

6,554

people in 2010

2.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #4,982)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,308	Karl	6,564	47,036
#5,309	Beaudoin	6,562	47,051
#5,310	Stocker	6,561	47,058
#5,311	Erdman	6,558	47,079
#5,313	Brophy	6,557	47,086
#5,315	Mallett	6,556	47,094
#5,316	Barcia	6,555	47,101

Who is named Gower

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

93% of people named Gower identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Gowers

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Andre Gower
American actor, born 1973
Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
British duchess (1829–1888)

Notable Gowers come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Gower

Gore

Gower has the Soundex code G600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G600.

Questions

How common is the surname Gower?: 6,554 people in the United States had the surname Gower in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,108 Americans. It ranked 5,317th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gower?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gower identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Gower?: Andre Gower, American actor, followed by Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland.
Where is the surname Gower most common?: Wikidata records people named Gower in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Gower?: Gower is /ˈɡaʊɚ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Gower getting more or less common?: More common. 6,469 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,554 in 2010, up 1.3%.