The gower Surname
gower Name Meaning and History
- English (of Norman origin): regional name for someone from the district north of Paris known in Old French as Gohiere.
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the various places in northern France called Gouy (from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gaudius + the locative suffix -acum), with the addition of the Anglo-Norman French suffix -er.
- English: from a Norman personal name, Go(h)ier, cognate with the Old English name mentioned at Gooder.
- Welsh: from the peninsula in southern Wales, of which the Welsh name is Gwyr.
- Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gauer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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