Fowle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname applied to someone resembling a bird in some way
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfaʊəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fowle is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname applied to someone resembling a bird in some way.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Fowle is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE fugol ‘fowl, bird’, used as a personal name and nickname; first attested Fugel 1066 Winton (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Cogns.: Prov.: Fouquiere, Falquiere. Cat.: Falguera(s). resembled a bird, in part representing a ME continuation of the OE personal nameFugol ‘Bird’, originally a byname. Dim.: Fr.: Fougeron. Vars.: Fowell; Vowell; Fuggle. Aug.: Fr.: Fougerat. Cogn.: Ger. and Jewish (Ashkenazic): Vogel.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, resembled a bird, in part representing a ME continuation of the OE personal name Fugol ‘Bird’, originally a byname. Pej.: Foinard. Fould see Fold Vars.: Fowell; Vowell; Fuggle. Patrs.: Fowl(e)s, Fowells; Vowel(l)s, Vowles, Vouls (W Coun¬ try); Fuggles. Foulerton see Fullerton
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Obsolete spelling of fowl.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of fole (“foal”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Fowleb. 1637Fowle, Sir Thomas (bap. 1637, d. 1692), goldsmith and banker
- Daniel Fowleb. 1715USAmerican printer
- Daniel Gould Fowleb. 1831USAmerican politician (1831–1891)
- Thomas Welbank Fowleb. 1835English cleric; rector of Islip, Oxfordshire
- William H. Fowleb. 1838USAmerican politician (1838–1903)
- Francis Ernlé Fowleb. 1893GBEnglish brigadier; (1893-1969)
- Juliana Kugua Fowleb. 1893UScomputer for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Kate Fowleb. 1971GBcurator
- Brionne FowleGBEnglish footballer
- David A FowleUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 940 | #27,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 940 | #24,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 903 | #26,887 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #70,477 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #260,602 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #329,345 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #168,889 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #239,584 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fowle mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname applied to someone resembling a bird in some way. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Fowle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfaʊəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fowle have the most bearers?
- Fowle is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fowleThe 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, “Fowle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.