# Rowe (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/rowe/  
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) | 69,879 |
| US rank (2010) | 478 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 4,418 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.5% (66,205 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ɹoʊ/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from Middle English Rowe, from the noun row. Compare Rew and Rawe. * Also as an English surname, variant of Rolfe, Rough, Ralph, Rowson.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Rowe 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) | 79% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 15% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Rowe in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico.

## People named Rowe

- Mike Rowe, American television personality
- Brad Rowe, American actor
- Raymond Rowe, American professional wrestler
- Charlie Rowe, British actor
- Kelyn Rowe, American soccer player
- Jennifer Rowe, Australian fiction writer, for children as Emily Rodda (pseudonym), mystery for adults as 
- Nicholas Rowe, British actor
- Curtis Rowe, American basketball player (born 1949)
- Paul Rowe, American ice hockey player (1914-1993)
- William L. Rowe, American philosopher (1931-2015)
- Brian Rowe, American soccer player
- Colin Rowe, British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician, and teac

and 5 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Rawe, Roe, Ro, Row, Roye, Rohe, Ray, Roy, Rea, Rao, Rau, Rey.

## 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.