'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOWNS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

The most likely matches are shown first.

DOWNES
DINES
DEANS
DANES
DOWN
DAINES
DANCE
TOWNS
DENNIS
DUNNINGS
DENNING
DUNNING
DON
DIMMICK
DOWDS
DANKS
DOWDING
DIMES
DEWING
DUNKS
DUNK
DEMSEY
TOWNES
DUDDING
DENCH
DOWNS
TONES
DOWNING
DAMMS
DOWNEY
DINNING
DUNGEY
DANCEY
DANCY
DEYOUNG
DENIS
DUENAS
DANOS
DANESI
DONEZ
DINIS
DENSE
DINOS
DENISE
DINUNZIO
DINUZZO
DENICE
DIONES
DIENES
DENES

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

The following words are slight variants of DOWNS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.

DONWS DWONS ODWNS DOWN DOWNA DOWNSA DOWNSE DOWNSI DOWNSO