Last Name MOWBRAY

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Meaning Local: Of Mowbray or Monbrai, an ancient barony in Normandy. Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumberland, but his estates passed to his cousin Nigel de Albini, whose son Roger, at the command of Henry I, assumed the name of Mowbray, and affixed it to one of his fiefs, Meton Mowbray.
Origin English, Irish, South african

Rank 15,052 (2000 US census) 13,207 (1990 US census)
Count 1,798 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 93.6%, or 1683 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.78%, or 68 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.61%, or 11 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.33%, or 24 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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