How common is the surname Mowery?

8,226 people in the United States had the surname Mowery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,533 Americans. It ranked 4,321st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mowery?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mowery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mowery getting more or less common?

More common. 8,002 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,226 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Mowery

A surname, carried by 8,226 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mowery is more common than 97.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,226 people named Mowery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,533 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,002.

#4,321

rank among US surnames

8,226

people in 2010

2.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #4,094)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,312	Prosser	8,244	37,451
#4,314	Derosa	8,241	37,465
#4,315	Poore	8,240	37,469
#4,317	Ives	8,233	37,501
#4,318	Winfield	8,230	37,515
#4,319	Sprouse	8,229	37,519
#4,320	Kirkwood	8,227	37,528

Who is named Mowery

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

96% of people named Mowery identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mowery

Mowery has the Soundex code M600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M600.

Questions

How common is the surname Mowery?: 8,226 people in the United States had the surname Mowery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,533 Americans. It ranked 4,321st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mowery?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mowery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mowery getting more or less common?: More common. 8,002 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,226 in 2010, up 2.8%.