Flow-Er
surname · Latin script
Flow-Er is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,711 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour.
- USUnited States1 in 90K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
- NONorway1 in 547K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
3,711 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishflour(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normanflur(measured from records)
- Latinflōrem(measured from records)
- Proto-Italic*flōs(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₃-“to thrive“to thrive, bloom”(measured from records)
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour. Partly displaced native Old English blostma, whence Modern English blossom.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Flow-Er is found
(measured from records)Flow-Er counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,711 | 1 in 90K | 3.8K | — | 54 |
| ES Spain | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | 3 |
3,711 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Flow-Er mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Doublet of flour. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Flow-Er?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Flow-Er, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Flow-Er most common?
- Flow-Er is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 90 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Flow-Er?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,711 people named Flow-Er in 2010, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flow-erThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Flow-Er” — ranked 8136th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.