How common is the surname Mowrey?

2,335 people in the United States had the surname Mowrey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,225 Americans. It ranked 13,124th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mowrey?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mowrey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mowrey getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,335 in 2010, down 4.4%.

The surname Mowrey

A surname, carried by 2,335 people in the United States.

2 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). Mowrey is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,335 people named Mowrey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 132,225 Americans. That is down 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,443.

#13,124

rank among US surnames

2,335

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-4.4%

change since 2000 (was #11,745)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,115	Leming	2,337	132,112
#13,121	Hinnant	2,336	132,168
#13,124	Mowrey	2,335	132,225
#13,127	Flannigan	2,334	132,282
#13,132	Meldrum	2,332	132,395
#13,133	Hutsell	2,331	132,452

Who is named Mowrey

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

95% of people named Mowrey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mowrey

Mowrey 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 Mowrey?: 2,335 people in the United States had the surname Mowrey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,225 Americans. It ranked 13,124th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mowrey?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mowrey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mowrey getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,335 in 2010, down 4.4%.