Coward Family History
Coward Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a keeper of cattle, Middle English
cowherde, Old English cuhyrde, from cu
‘cow’ + hierde ‘herdsman’. (The surname has nothing to do with
the modern English word coward, which is from Old French
cuard, a pejorative term from coue ‘tail’ (Latin
cauda) with reference to an animal with its tail between its
legs.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
300,303
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Name Distribution of Coward Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coward families
 67 - 131  23 - 66 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Coward families
|
436 - 870 146 - 435 |
1 - 145 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coward families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Coward Family Origin
Coward Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Coward
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Coward Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Coward census records
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