Cowley Family History
Cowley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places
called Cowley. One in Gloucestershire is named with Old English
cu ‘cow’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’; two in
Derbyshire have Old English col ‘(char)coal’ as the first
element; and one near London has it from Old English cofa
‘shelter’, ‘bay’ (see Cove) or the personal name Cofa.
The largest group, however, with examples in Buckinghamshire, Devon,
Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire, were apparently named as ‘the wood or
clearing of Cufa’; however, in view of the number of places
named with this element, it is possible that it conceals a
topographical term as well as a personal name.Irish:
reduced form of Macaulay (see McCauley).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cowley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cowley families
 61 - 120  21 - 60 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cowley families
|
438 - 874 147 - 437 |
1 - 146 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowley families
|
18 - 33 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cowley Family Origin
Cowley Immigration Information
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Cowley Family Occupations
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