Govan Family History
Govan Name Meaning
habitational name from Govan near Glasgow, first
recorded c.1134 as Guven, possibly meaning ‘place of the
smith’, although more recently a Cumbric word gir ‘hill’ has
been suggested.from a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac a’Ghobhainn ‘son of the smith’, from gobha
‘smith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Govan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Govan families
 41 - 79  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Govan families
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Govan families
|
117 - 232 40 - 116 |
1 - 39 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Govan Family Origin
Govan Immigration Information
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Govan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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