Given name & surname
Lowry
“a great leader”
Lowry is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a great leader.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a great leader.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lowry through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 505
- 478 boys · 27 girls
- Most popular year
- 1945
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,472 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,472 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1945. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 446 as a first name in 2020; 23,918 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lowry’s family of names
Lowry has a related form in Lowrea. Lowry has a related form in Lowree. Lowry has a related form in Lowrey.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Lowry
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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