Cowden Family History
Cowden Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of at least three
places named Cowden. One in Northumbria occurs in 1286 as
Colden and is derived from Old English col ‘(char)coal’
+ denu ‘valley’; that in East Yorkshire occurs in Domesday Book
as Coledun and is from Old English col + dun
‘hill’; while one in Kent is recorded in 1160 as Cudena and is
from Old English cu ‘cow’ + denn ‘pasture’. The last
does not appear to have yielded any surnames; the surname is more or
less restricted to northern England, and is also found in northern
Ireland, where it may be of Scottish origin, from places called Cowden
near Dollar and near Dalkeith, Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cowden Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cowden families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cowden families
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28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowden families
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35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cowden Family Origin
Cowden Immigration Information
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Cowden Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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