Given name & surname

Cowans

Cowans is a surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Cowans comes from Scottish Gaelic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Cowans’s family of names

In English usage, Cowans as a surname has a related form in Cowan.

Walk Cowans’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Cowans, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Gaelic

Cohran

“descendant of Corcrán”

No U.S. birth series

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Irish

Cochrane

“descendant of Corcrán”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic

Cowie

“hazel”

No U.S. birth series

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Gaelic · Royal

Comgan

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Gaelic · Saints

Conan

“resembling a wolf” · “one who is high and mighty”

39RareRising

>99% boys

Gaelic · Nature

Conway

“the hound of the plain; from the sacred river”

44UncommonRising fast

99% boys · 1% girls

Gaelic

Comrie

“confluence”

No U.S. birth series

40% boys · 60% girls

Gaelic · Saints

Comgal

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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