Cowan

See also: cowan

English

Alternative forms

• (Scottish surname): Cowans, Cowin, Cowing

Proper noun

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. A city in Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
5. A town in New South Wales. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
6. A town in Manitoba.
7. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.