# Plowden (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/plowden/  
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 | English |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,280 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,676 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 241,207 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.2% (1,194 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Old English plega + denu, recorded as Plaueden in 1252.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Plowden 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) | 26% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 70% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Plowden in the United States.

## People named Plowden

- Daeqwon Plowden, American basketball player (born 1998)

## Similar surnames

Plotner, Pelton, Palladino, Paladino, Poulton, Platten, Platon.

## 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.