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Bowden

in Pennsylvania

There are 452 people with the last name "Bowden" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Bowden 2,789
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  1. is 2,785th most common Shaulis
  2. is 2,786th most common Switzer
  3. is 2,787th most common Bingham
  4. is 2,788th most common Boston
  5. is 2,789th most common Bowden
  6. is 2,790th most common Craven
  7. is 2,791st most common Hannah
  8. is 2,792nd most common Hassinger
  9. is 2,793rd most common Hathaway

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bowden

John, James, William, David, Mary, Robert, Edward, Barbara, Deborah, Gary

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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