# Mowbray (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mowbray/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,681 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,926 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 183,668 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.5% (1,798 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Mulberry |

## Etymology

English habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Montbray, in Normandy. The name of the village comes from Old French mont (“hill”) + brai (“mud, slime”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mowbray in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mowbray in the United Kingdom and the United States.

## People named Mowbray

- Alan Mowbray, British actor (1896-1969)
- Henry Siddons Mowbray, American painter (1858-1928)

## Similar surnames

Mayberry, Mabry, Mabrey, Maberry, Mahabir.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.