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Cowan
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cowan
English
Alternative forms
Scottish surname en Cowans Cowin Cowing
Proper noun
en Scottish Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of gd mac Eoghainn son of Ewen
en Irish; an anglicization of ga mac Eógain son of Owen
en Jewish Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
en outer suburb city/Sydney in shire:Suf/Hornsby s/New South Wales c/Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a en aus-yuk word meaning “big water”.
en town in western p/Manitoba c/Canada.
en place c/USA:
en CDP co/Stanislaus County s/California.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Monroe co/Delaware County s/Indiana.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Buffalo co/Union County s/Pennsylvania.
en city co/Franklin County s/Tennessee ; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
Derived terms
en Cowan Bridge
Anagrams
en acnow canow