Bowen Family History
Bowen Name Meaning
English, of Welsh origin: Anglicized form of Welsh ap
Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen).Irish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of
Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’
(see Bohan).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bowen
Name Distribution of Bowen Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bowen families
 427 - 852  143 - 426 |
 1 - 142  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bowen families
|
1,267 - 2,532 423 - 1,266 |
1 - 422 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bowen families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bowen Family Origin
Bowen Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bowen
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Bowen Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bowen census records
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