Explore the Family Name Cowing

The meaning of Cowing

Manx and English (Northumberland and Durham): probably a variant of Cowin; see Cowan.

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How common is the last name Cowing in the United States?

According to data based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname Cowing has seen a slight decrease in popularity between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, Cowing was ranked as the 36,232nd most popular surname, but in 2010 it slipped marginally to the 36,286th position. That's a change of -0.15 percent. However, the count of people with this surname has increased from 584 in 2000 to 617 in 2010, which is an increase of 5.65 percent. The proportion of people with the Cowing surname per 100,000 people decreased by 4.55 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#36,232	#36,286	-0.15%
Count	584	617	5.65%
Proportion per 100k	0.22	0.21	-4.55%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Cowing

Moving on to the ethnic identity associated with the Cowing surname, according to the Decennial U.S. Census data, the majority of individuals identified as White, although this figure decreased slightly from 90.41 percent in 2000 to 88.98 percent in 2010. There was also a minor decrease in the percentage of Black individuals, with a shift from 4.45 percent to 4.38 percent. The percentage of those identifying as Asian/Pacific Islander showed an increase, moving from 1.71 percent to 2.11 percent. Furthermore, there was an emergence of Hispanic identification, which was not present in the 2000 census, showing at 2.27 percent in 2010. The category "Two or more races" went from 2.05 percent in 2000 to being suppressed for privacy in 2010. There were no recorded identifications as American Indian and Alaskan Native in either year.

	2000	2010	Change
White	90.41%	88.98%	-1.58%
Black	4.45%	4.38%	-1.57%
Hispanic	0%	2.27%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	1.71%	2.11%	23.39%
Two or More Races	2.05%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%