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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and Gloucestershire called Cowhill, from Old English ‘cow’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  • possibly also an Americanized form of Polish, Jewish, and Sorbian Kowal.

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