The name Cowan is first seen in the historical record in the UK and Ireland among Briton people in the
Scottish and
English borderlands.[citation needed] It derives from the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin (the "mac" prefix meaning "son of") or the Gaelic given name Eoghan. Alternate Anglicized spellings in Scotland include Cowen and Kewon.[1] Similar names with the same derivation in
Ireland and
Northern Ireland are Coen, Coan, and Coyne, as well as McKeown and McKeon (the Irish prefix "mc" having the same meaning as the Scottish Gaelic "mac").[2]
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surnameCowan. If an
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The name Cowan is first seen in the historical record in the UK and Ireland among Briton people in the
Scottish and
English borderlands.[citation needed] It derives from the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin (the "mac" prefix meaning "son of") or the Gaelic given name Eoghan. Alternate Anglicized spellings in Scotland include Cowen and Kewon.[1] Similar names with the same derivation in
Ireland and
Northern Ireland are Coen, Coan, and Coyne, as well as McKeown and McKeon (the Irish prefix "mc" having the same meaning as the Scottish Gaelic "mac").[2]
This page lists people with the
surnameCowan. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.