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bowen Name Meaning and History

  1. English, of Welsh origin: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen).
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan).

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Distribution of bowen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowen families
 427-852
 143-426
 1-142
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