The gow Surname

gow Name Meaning and History

Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic gobha ‘smith’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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The gow name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gow family name as far back in history as possible.

gow Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of gow Families in the US in 1920

Number of gow families

28-53

10-27

1-9

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Neil Gow	Janet Johnson	13
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john gow married mary dow	susancarruthers53	0
Ann Gow & Alexander Wilson in Crieff	douglaswilson_1	0
GOW Family- Scotland>PEI>Northern CA	rmc373	4
Gow Family	heumann	17
Catherine Gow Hector Munro from Crieff	margaret_david57	3
Archibald Gow - Canada	Kelly Fowler (nee Gow)	1
Gow family from Lancashire ENGLAND	depass	0
Yung GOW Arrested 1906 PA	Obits101	0

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