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Gowans

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : variant of McGowan ‘son of the smith’, in which the Gaelic patronymic prefix Mac has been replaced by the English patronymic suffix -s.

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