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    The surname Lowman

    A surname, carried by 7,284 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L550

    Lowman: #4,838 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lowman #4,838, 7,284 people Lowman: #4,838 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lowman #4,838, 7,284 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lowman is more common than 97% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,284 people named Lowman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,387 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,114.

    #4,838
    rank among US surnames
    7,284
    people in 2010
    2.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,575)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,835Tibbs7,29442,329
    #4,836Bare7,29142,346
    #4,837Das7,28942,358
    #4,838Lowman7,28442,387

    Who is named Lowman

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

    83% of people named Lowman identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lowman

    Lowman has the Soundex code L550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L550.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lowman?
    7,284 people in the United States had the surname Lowman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,387 Americans. It ranked 4,838th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lowman?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Lowman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lowman getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,114 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,284 in 2010, up 2.4%.