Cowan

See also: cowan

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Cowan

  1. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
  2. A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
  3. A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
  4. A city in Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
  5. A town in New South Wales. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
  6. A town in Manitoba.
  7. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.
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