How common is the surname Mallow?

1,652 people in the United States had the surname Mallow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 186,892 Americans. It ranked 17,151st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mallow?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Mallow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Mallow?

Mallow is /ˈmæləʊ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Mallow getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,794 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,652 in 2010, down 7.9%.

The surname Mallow

A surname, carried by 1,652 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈmæləʊ/ 2 syllables Soundex M400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mallow is more common than 89.4% of them.

Origin

From Irish Meallach.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,652 people named Mallow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 186,892 Americans. That is down 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,794.

#17,151

rank among US surnames

1,652

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-7.9%

change since 2000 (was #15,088)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,142	Ally	1,653	186,779
#17,151	Endo	1,652	186,892
#17,159	Yard	1,651	187,005

Who is named Mallow

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

94% of people named Mallow identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mallow

Mallow has the Soundex code M400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M400.

Questions

Where does the surname Mallow come from?: From Irish Meallach.
How common is the surname Mallow?: 1,652 people in the United States had the surname Mallow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 186,892 Americans. It ranked 17,151st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mallow?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Mallow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Mallow?: Mallow is /ˈmæləʊ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Mallow getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,794 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,652 in 2010, down 7.9%.