Flower

At the 2020 census, 3,633 Americans bore the surname Flower — 8,664th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 82,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,633
Rank: 8,664th
How common: 1 in 82,300
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

As an occupational English surname, from the noun flower, and sometimes flour.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Flower described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Flower

William Henry Flower (1831–1899)English comparative anatomist, surgeon and museum curator
Andy Flower (born 1968)cricketer
George Buck Flower (1937–2004)American actor and director
Roswell Pettibone Flower (1835–1899)American politician

People named Flower with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Flower

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.