Last Name HOWE

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Meaning The son of Hugh. Also, local, 'of the howes,' 'how,' a hill, a mound.
A high place, a hill; critically, a hill in a valley. 'De La Howe,' "from the hill," was originally the name of the family. They came to England with William the Conqueror. (See Athill.)
Origin English, Scottish, Irish, Falkland, Chinese, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 775 (2000 US census) 805 (1990 US census)
Count 40,555 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 92.25%, or 37412 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 2.77%, or 1123 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.76%, or 308 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.22%, or 495 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.52%, or 616 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.48%, or 600 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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