How common is the surname Trow?

622 people in the United States had the surname Trow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 496,375 Americans. It ranked 36,048th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Trow?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Trow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Trow getting more or less common?

Less common. 661 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 622 in 2010, down 5.9%.

The surname Trow

An English place surname, carried by 622 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trow is more common than 77.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

Various origins: * A nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English trewe (“faithful, loyal”). * A topographic surname for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from Middle English trow (“trough”).

Trow is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 622 people named Trow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 496,375 Americans. That is down 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 661.

#36,048

rank among US surnames

622

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-5.9%

change since 2000 (was #32,743)

Who is named Trow

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

95% of people named Trow identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Trew

Surnames that sound like Trow

Trow has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Trow come from?: Various origins: * A nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English trewe (“faithful, loyal”). * A topographic surname for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from Middle English trow (“trough”).
How common is the surname Trow?: 622 people in the United States had the surname Trow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 496,375 Americans. It ranked 36,048th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Trow?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Trow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Trow?: Trow is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Trow getting more or less common?: Less common. 661 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 622 in 2010, down 5.9%.
What are other spellings of Trow?: Trew.