Barrows

surname · Latin script

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

Barrows is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Different form of Barrow (ii-iii).

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 36K
  • USUnited States1 in 43K

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)

7,773 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
346 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

North Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BarrowsLatin(measured from records)
บารโรวสThai(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)

Different form of Barrow (ii-iii).

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Barrows 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 Barrows is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7,7731 in 43K7.8KBarrows346
GB United Kingdom—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 30K—Barrows123
KP North Korea#892≈2,000 est.≈1 in 13K—Barrows3
CA Canada—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 36K—Barrows54
IT Italy—≈820 est.≈1 in 76K—Barrows12
NZ New Zealand—≈120 est.≈1 in 40K—Barrows16

7,773 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000James O. Barrows, b. 1855Walter Bradford Barrows, b. 1855Henry A. Barrows, b. 1875Lewis O. Barrows, b. 1893George Barrows, b. 1914Jim Barrows, b. 1944Annie Barrows, b. 1962Diana Barrows, b. 1966Eddy Barrows, b. 1967Ian Barrows, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Barrows
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107.8K#4,561
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.5K#4,382
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.2K#4,745
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Barrows mean, and where does it come from?
Different form of Barrow (ii-iii). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Barrows have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Barrows, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barrows.
How common is the name Barrows?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,773 people named Barrows in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
How common is Barrows compared with other names?
In North Korea, Barrows is the 892nd most common surname of 2,439 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, “Barrows” — the 892nd most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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