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Bowden

in North Carolina

There are 1,582 people with the last name "Bowden" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Bowden 676
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  1. is 672nd most common Spruill
  2. is 673rd most common Beam
  3. is 674th most common Paul
  4. is 675th most common Casey
  5. is 676th most common Bowden
  6. is 677th most common Ledbetter
  7. is 678th most common Riggs
  8. is 679th most common Bynum
  9. is 680th most common Jarvis

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bogdan, Bodden, Boyden, Bowdoin, Boggan, Bowdish, Bawden, Bowditch, Bowdry, Bowdre

Most Common First Names for Bowden

James, Robert, David, Mary, Michael, John, William, Bobby, Richard, Charles

Meaning & History

English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin.

English: habitational name from Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, so named with the Old English phrase būfan dūne ‘on, upon the hill’. The surname may also have arisen as a topographic name from the same phrase used independently, for someone who lived at the top of a hill.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadáin ‘descendant of Buadán’, an Old Irish personal name.

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