How common is the surname Row?

2,430 people in the United States had the surname Row in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,056 Americans. It ranked 12,703rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Row?

In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Row identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

Is the surname Row getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,473 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,430 in 2010, down 1.7%.

The surname Row

A surname, carried by 2,430 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Row is more common than 92.2% of them.

Origin

English surname, variant of Rowe.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,430 people named Row in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,056 Americans. That is down 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,473.

#12,703

rank among US surnames

2,430

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-1.7%

change since 2000 (was #11,635)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,694	Culbert	2,432	126,951
#12,696	Henao	2,431	127,004
#12,703	Raulerson	2,430	127,056
#12,711	Gans	2,429	127,108

Who is named Row

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

85% of people named Row identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 85%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Row

Row has the Soundex code R000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R000.

Questions

Where does the surname Row come from?: English surname, variant of Rowe.
How common is the surname Row?: 2,430 people in the United States had the surname Row in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,056 Americans. It ranked 12,703rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Row?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Row identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Row getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,473 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,430 in 2010, down 1.7%.