Cawan Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 7
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Cawan Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cawan family

Profession Census Frequency
Clecher 3
Apprentice Shipping 1
Cotton Alerchmrts Clerh 1
Ctead Thatcher 1
Freight Clerk Shipping 1
Fish Merchant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cawan

Name Census Frequency
John Cawan 8
Mary Cawan 8
William Cawan 7
Thomas Cawan 6
James Cawan 5
Margaret Cawan 5
Jane Cawan 4
Sarah Cawan 4
Isabella Cawan 3
Jessie Cawan 3
Ann Cawan 2
Anne Cawan 2
Catherine Cawan 2
George Cawan 2
Henry Cawan 2
Phillip Cawan 2
Alice Cawan 1
Alicia Cawan 1
Annie Cawan 1
Arthur Cawan 1
Bertha Cawan 1
Boherta Cawan 1
Bridget Cawan 1
Brie Cawan 1
Charles Cawan 1

Cawan Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cowan 80% 13,305
2 Cowen 60% 12,340
3 Cowin 60% 5,049
4 Cown 60% 332
5 Cowne 40% 172
6 Cawen 80% 147
7 Cawn 80% 111
8 Cawan 100% 102

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The surname Cawan is the 8th most popular variant of Cowan.

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