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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.