as a Last Name
- 10,232
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Stowe
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Suffolk, so called from Old English stōw, a word akin to stoc (see Stoke), with the specialized meaning ‘meeting place’, frequently referring to a holy place or church. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.
| 3,037th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,232
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Stowe per capita
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