Dowless Surname

436,668th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 786 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States Virgin Islands

Dowless Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dowless Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States7801:464,69139,603
United States Virgin Islands41:27,5943,273
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England41:6,093,842135,151
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Dowless Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Dowless Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Dowless is held by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may be found as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Dowless? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 436,668th most frequently used family name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 9,271,687 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Dowless live; 99 percent live in North America and 99 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This last name is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 780 people, or 1 in 464,691. In The United States it is most frequent in: North Carolina, where 60 percent are found, Florida, where 6 percent are found and South Carolina, where 5 percent are found. Beside The United States it occurs in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States Virgin Islands, where 1 percent are found and Canada, where 0 percent are found.

Dowless Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Dowless has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name rose 78,000 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Dowless Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Dowless surname are 25.08% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 78.31% registered to vote for the political party.

Dowless earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 22.09% less than the national average, earning $33,619 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Dowles92136/
Dawless8626/
Dowlesh863/
Dowls8316/
Dowelles801/
Dobles771,181/
Dowels7746/
Dovles7715/
Dewles771/
Dawles770/
Doubles71101/
Dowells7142/
Duobles7112/
Dowiels714/
Dovleus712/
Dubless711/
Dewliss711/
Dewelles6724/
Dobls672/
Dawls672/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Dowless
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