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The GOWAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,968 10018 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 792 6604 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +2176 -3414 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 99 14341 0.001 6
United Kingdom 493 8942 0.001 11
Top States for GOWAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 351 1827 0.009 87
Texas 237 7769 0.001 11
California 224 11319 0.001 7
Tennessee 208 3541 0.004 37
North Carolina 196 4478 0.002 24
Top States for GOWAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 351 1827 0.009 87
North Dakota 40 2643 0.006 62
Tennessee 208 3541 0.004 37
Alabama 140 3887 0.003 31
North Carolina 196 4478 0.002 24

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GOWAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GOWAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GOWAN in South Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GOWAN by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GOWAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOWAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GOWAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GOWAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 114 3.84
White (Hispanic) 58 1.95
Mixed Race 39 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.74
Asian/Pacific 15 0.51
White (Caucasian) 2,720 91.64

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GOWAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GOWAN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GOWAN.

Similar names to GOWAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOWAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GOWAN

The following words are slight variants of GOWAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.