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    The surname Mow

    A place surname, carried by 626 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M000

    Mow: #35,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Mow #35,866, 626 people Mow: #35,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Mow #35,866, 626 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mow is more common than 77.9% of them.

    Origin

    Various origins: * A variant of the surname Mao. * A variant of the surnames Mowe or Maw. * A Scottish habitational surname, from a place in the parish of Morebattle.

    Mow is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 626 people named Mow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 493,204 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 546.

    #35,866
    rank among US surnames
    626
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.7%
    change since 2000 (was #38,141)

    Who is named Mow

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

    55% of people named Mow identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 7.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 32%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.3%
    • Two or more races 4.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 Mow

    Mow has the Soundex code M000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Mow come from?
    Various origins: * A variant of the surname Mao. * A variant of the surnames Mowe or Maw. * A Scottish habitational surname, from a place in the parish of Morebattle.
    How common is the surname Mow?
    626 people in the United States had the surname Mow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 493,204 Americans. It ranked 35,866th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mow?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Mow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Mow?
    Mow is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Mow getting more or less common?
    More common. 546 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 626 in 2010, up 15%.