How common is the surname Yow?

2,343 people in the United States had the surname Yow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,774 Americans. It ranked 13,091st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Yow?

In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Yow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

Who is the most famous person named Yow?

Griffin Yow, American soccer player.

Where is the surname Yow most common?

Wikidata records people named Yow in the United States.

Is the surname Yow getting more or less common?

More common. 2,293 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,343 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Yow

A surname, carried by 2,343 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex Y000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yow 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 2,343 people named Yow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,774 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,293.

#13,091

rank among US surnames

2,343

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #12,415)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,084	Ormond	2,346	131,605
#13,087	Carpentier	2,345	131,661
#13,088	Pascarella	2,344	131,717
#13,091	DiMatteo	2,343	131,774
#13,096	Highland	2,342	131,830
#13,099	Lipford	2,341	131,886

Who is named Yow

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

81% of people named Yow identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Yows

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Griffin Yow
American soccer player, born 2002

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Yow

Yow has the Soundex code Y000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y000.

Questions

How common is the surname Yow?: 2,343 people in the United States had the surname Yow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,774 Americans. It ranked 13,091st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yow?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Yow identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Yow?: Griffin Yow, American soccer player.
Where is the surname Yow most common?: Wikidata records people named Yow in the United States.
Is the surname Yow getting more or less common?: More common. 2,293 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,343 in 2010, up 2.2%.