Last Name BOWES

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Meaning This surname, according to Grose, originated as follows: about the time of the Conqueror, there was a town (on the site of the Castle of Bowes), which the tradition of the family states, was burned. It then belonged to the Earls of Brittany and Richmond. The castle was built, as Mr. Horseley thinks, out of the ruins of the Roman Fortress, by Alan Niger, the second earl of that title, who, it is said, placed therein William, his relation, with five hundred archers to defend it against some insurgents in Cambridge and Westmorland confederated with the Scots, giving him for the device of his standard the arms of Brittany, with three bows and a bundle of arrows, whence both the castle and the commander derived their names; the former being called 'Bowes Castle,' and the latter, 'William de Arcubus,' or 'William Bowes.'
Origin South african

Rank 6,460 (2000 US census) 6,240 (1990 US census)
Count 4,847 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 90.53%, or 4388 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 5.32%, or 258 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.68%, or 33 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.58%, or 28 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.53%, or 74 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.36%, or 66 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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