Cowan (English, name)
expansion: Cowan
Senses:
glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
glosses: A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
glosses: A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
glosses: An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
glosses: A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Franklin County, Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
Forms:
form: Cowans
tags: alternative
form: Cowin
tags: alternative
form: Cowing
tags: alternative