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. An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
  5. A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
  6. A place in the United States:
    1. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
    2. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
    3. An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
    4. 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.

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