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The COWANS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,589 16616 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 124 27198 0 2
Change since 1880 +1465 +10582 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 14 68629 0 1
United Kingdom 331 11942 0.001 7
Top States for COWANS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 174 8635 0.002 15
California 116 22331 0.000 3
Michigan 99 14221 0.001 10
Mississippi 92 3747 0.003 32
Illinois 90 16466 0.001 7
Top States for COWANS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 92 3747 0.003 32
Washington DC 9 6430 0.002 16
Tennessee 89 6948 0.002 16
Ohio 174 8635 0.002 15
Alabama 67 6722 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of COWANS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COWANS 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 COWANS 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 COWANS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 319 20.08
Mixed Race 52 3.27
White (Hispanic) 31 1.95
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.44
Asian/Pacific 5 0.31
Black/African American 1,175 73.95

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

Meaning of COWANS in historical publications

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

Similar names to COWANS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COWANS.

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 COWANS

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