Flow Surname
Approximately 1,750 people bear this surname
Flow Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 809 | 1:448,033 | 38,416 |
| Morocco | 409 | 1:84,294 | 14,399 |
| Dominican Republic | 100 | 1:104,329 | 4,466 |
| Liberia | 64 | 1:68,883 | 5,877 |
| Colombia | 35 | 1:1,364,973 | 10,441 |
| Canada | 28 | 1:1,315,914 | 92,927 |
| Germany | 21 | 1:3,833,593 | 163,016 |
| England | 20 | 1:2,785,903 | 97,972 |
| Indonesia | 17 | 1:7,779,364 | 314,803 |
| India | 17 | 1:45,121,493 | 474,784 |
| Australia | 17 | 1:1,587,982 | 78,599 |
| Mexico | 16 | 1:7,757,888 | 35,569 |
| Malaysia | 14 | 1:2,106,730 | 83,604 |
| Spain | 14 | 1:3,339,431 | 67,428 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Nigeria | 12 | 1:14,761,896 | 248,185 |
| Ecuador | 11 | 1:1,445,986 | 17,636 |
| China | 8 | 1:170,915,196 | 8,932 |
| Thailand | 7 | 1:10,091,192 | 512,203 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| Poland | 5 | 1:7,601,750 | 167,855 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1:2,717,906 | 153,458 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1:59,547,962 | 132,569 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| El Salvador | 2 | 1:3,171,944 | 6,376 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Jamaica | 2 | 1:1,434,974 | 11,081 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Guatemala | 2 | 1:8,041,334 | 9,698 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| Belize | 1 | 1:355,474 | 3,977 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Iran | 1 | 1:76,782,524 | 277,718 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Guyana | 1 | 1:762,221 | 14,420 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 9 | 1:2,708,374 | 73,770 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:935,804 | 21,348 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 234 | 1:214,610 | 18,363 |
The alternate forms: Flôw (1) are calculated separately.
Flow (2,848) may also be a first name.
Flow Demographics
Average Flow Salary in
United States
$39,952 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Flow Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Flow Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Flow occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may also occur as: Flôw. For other potential spellings of Flow click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Flow? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 231,065th most frequently occurring surname on a global scale, held by approximately 1 in 4,164,312 people. The last name Flow occurs mostly in The Americas, where 51 percent of Flow are found; 41 percent are found in North America and 40 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 136,419th most frequently occurring first name worldwide It is held by 2,848 people.
Flow is most commonly held in The United States, where it is held by 809 people, or 1 in 448,033. In The United States Flow is most common in: North Carolina, where 17 percent live, Texas, where 15 percent live and California, where 8 percent live. Excluding The United States Flow occurs in 80 countries. It is also common in Morocco, where 23 percent live and The Dominican Republic, where 6 percent live.
Flow Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Flow has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Flow surname rose 346 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 222 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Flow Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Flow surname is primarily Orthodox (100%) in Russia.
In The United States those bearing the Flow surname are 20.13% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 66.9% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Flow earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 7.41% less than the national average, earning $39,952 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.75% more than the national average, earning $56,019 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flôw | 92 | 1 | / |
| Flowe | 89 | 1,097 | / |
| Flouw | 89 | 160 | / |
| Flowa | 89 | 4 | / |
| Flowz | 89 | 1 | / |
| Floow | 89 | 1 | / |
| Flohw | 89 | 0 | / |
| Fhlow | 89 | 0 | / |
| Fellow | 80 | 698 | / |
| Fillow | 80 | 53 | / |
| Flowsh | 80 | 1 | / |
| Flaw | 75 | 9 | / |
| Flov | 75 | 6 | / |
| Flob | 75 | 3 | / |
| Flof | 75 | 1 | / |
| Fillyow | 73 | 17 | / |
| Fellowa | 73 | 1 | / |
| Fellowe | 73 | 0 | / |
| Flaws | 67 | 893 | / |
| Flauw | 67 | 154 | / |
| Flawe | 67 | 4 | / |
| Flova | 67 | 4 | / |
| Floev | 67 | 3 | / |
| Flouf | 67 | 2 | / |
| Flofs | 67 | 1 | / |
| Floof | 67 | 1 | / |
| Floyf | 67 | 1 | / |
| Flahw | 67 | 1 | / |
| Floph | 67 | 1 | / |
| Flovd | 67 | 1 | / |
| Fillouwe | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ffellows | 67 | 1 | / |
| Flohb | 67 | 1 | / |
| Flofe | 67 | 0 | / |
| Floff | 67 | 0 | / |
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Flow Reference & Research
Flow/Flowe/Flough FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Flow
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis