Macgowan 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 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
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 1
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 1
Yorkshire 8

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

Macgowan Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Macgowan family

Profession Census Frequency
Flax Spinner 3
General Servant 1
Dressmaker 1
Bricklayer Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Macgowan

Name Census Frequency
William Macgowan 18
Mary Macgowan 16
Elizabeth Macgowan 12
John Macgowan 12
Ellen Macgowan 9
Sarah Macgowan 8
James Macgowan 7
Joseph Macgowan 6
George Macgowan 5
Thomas Macgowan 5
Ethel Macgowan 4
Andrew Macgowan 3
Annie Macgowan 3
Florence Macgowan 3
Henry Macgowan 3
Margaret Macgowan 3
Michael Macgowan 3
Ann Macgowan 2
Anne Macgowan 2
Charles Macgowan 2
Daniel Macgowan 2
Emily Macgowan 2
Ernest Macgowan 2
Hedley Macgowan 2
Inez Macgowan 2

Macgowan Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Mcgowan 88% 4,335
2 Mcgowen 75% 756
3 Macgowan 100% 208
4 Mcgown 75% 159

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The surname Macgowan is the 3rd most popular variant of Mcgowan.

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