Gower Family History
Gower Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): regional name for someone from the
district north of Paris known in Old French as Gohiere.English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the
various places in northern France called Gouy (from the Gallo-Roman
personal name Gaudius + the locative suffix -acum), with
the addition of the Anglo-Norman French suffix -er.English: from a Norman personal name, Go(h)ier, cognate
with the Old English name mentioned at Gooder.Welsh: from
the peninsula in southern Wales, of which the Welsh name is
Gwyr.Probably an Americanized spelling of German
Gauer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gower Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gower families
 63 - 123  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gower families
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306 - 610 103 - 305 |
1 - 102 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gower families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gower Family Origin
Gower Immigration Information
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Gower Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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