Lowers

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lowers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of lower.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 325K(measured from records)
  • BSBahamas≈1 in 26K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 116K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,024 people, 2010

Sources
184 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Bahamas, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person singular simple present indicative of lower

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lowers 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.

Where Lowers is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0241 in 325K1KLowers184
GB United Kingdom—≈190 est.≈1 in 340K—Lowers55
IT Italy—≈110 est.≈1 in 574K—Lowers2
CA Canada—≈59 est.≈1 in 637K—Lowers12
AT Austria—≈49 est.≈1 in 181K—Lowers1
SG Singapore—≈46 est.≈1 in 134K—Lowers1
IE Ireland—≈35 est.≈1 in 146K—Lowers1
JM Jamaica—≈24 est.≈1 in 116K—Lowers4
BS Bahamas#290≈13 est.≈1 in 26K—Lowers2

1,024 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. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lowers is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lowërs

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Lowers
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,283
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,680
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Lowers mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular simple present indicative of lower Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Lowers have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Lowers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lowers.
How common is the name Lowers?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,024 people named Lowers in 2010, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
How common is Lowers compared with other names?
In the Bahamas, Lowers is the 290th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lowers” — the 290th most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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