Gowan Family History
Gowan Name Meaning
Irish (Cavan): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Gobhann ‘descendant of the smith’.Scottish and Irish:
shortened form of McGowan or from the genitive
(gobhainn) of gobhan ‘smith’. GFB, EML, WN In Ireland
(in the south, especially), these names were also translated as
Smith.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gowan
Name Distribution of Gowan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gowan families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gowan families
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59 - 115 20 - 58 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gowan families
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14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gowan Family Origin
Gowan Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Gowan
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Gowan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Gowan census records
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