Cowan

At the 2020 census, 30,577 Americans bore the surname Cowan — 1,127th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,775.

By the numbers

People: 30,577
Rank: 1,127th
How common: 1 in 9,775
Per 100,000: 10.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cowan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Cowan

Clyde Cowan (1919–1974)co-discoverer of the neutrino
Edith Cowan (1861–1932)Australian politician
Mo Cowan (born 1969)29th United States Senator from Massachusetts (Class 2)
Jerome Cowan (1897–1972)American actor
Elliot Cowan (born 1976)British actor
Sandy Cowan (1879–1915)Canadian lacrosse player
Caylee Cowan (born 1998)American actress

People named Cowan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cowan

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.