Lowe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from German Lowe ‘lion’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/loʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lowe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 68th most common surname.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.2K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.3K
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)
- #847 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 551 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
92,260 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
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)
ornamental name from German Lowe ‘lion’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lowe 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 | #262 | 92,260 | 1 in 3.6K | 118K | Lowe | 551 |
| GB United Kingdom | #154 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 3.3K | Lowe | 300 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Lowe | 12 |
| CA Canada | #259 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 141 | Lowe | 232 |
| AU Australia | #201 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1 | Lowe | 234 |
| NZ New Zealand | #166 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Lowe | 127 |
| IE Ireland | #274 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Lowe | 81 |
| JM Jamaica | #68 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Lowe | 28 |
92,260 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lowe 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, Alternative form of low ("flame").
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Arthur, English actor; E. Nobles,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, US lawyer; Rob, US actor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Germanized form of Levy.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Irish, This well-known English name, quite numerous in Dublin and Ulster, is according to Woulfe also used as the anglicized form of the rare Irish Mac Lughadha. See MacLoy
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Emperor Wu of Hanb. 156not in their usual nameseventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC–87 BC)
- Liu Shaoqib. 1898CNnot in their usual name2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898–1969)
- Liu Xiaobob. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)
- Gordon Liub. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese martial arts film actor (born 1955)
- Andy Laub. 1961CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, film producer, and singer
- Rob Loweb. 1964USAmerican actor (born 1964)
- Lucy Liub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Chad Loweb. 1968USAmerican actor and director
- Liu Yifeib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress and singer (born 1987)
- Simu Liub. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Canadian actor and author (born 1989)
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 55 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 92K | #334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 90K | #341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 89K | #309 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Lowe mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from German Lowe ‘lion’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lowe?
- A machine transcription gives /loʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Lowe?
- In the etymology graph, Lewis and Lew are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lowe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 92 thousand people named Lowe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lowe.
- How common is the name Lowe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 92,260 people named Lowe in 2010, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Lowe compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lowe is the 262nd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loweThe 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, “Lowe” — the 262nd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.