McGowan

31,927 people in the United States were counted with the surname McGowan in the 2020 census, making it the 1,080th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,362.

By the numbers

People: 31,927
Rank: 1,080th
How common: 1 in 9,362
Per 100,000: 10.7

Where the name comes from

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac a' Ghobhainn and Irish Mac Gabhann. Compare Scottish Gaelic gobha.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.6%
Black, not Hispanic 19.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called McGowan

Rose McGowan (born 1973)American actress, director and activist
Ryan McGowan (born 1989)Australian association football player
Zach McGowan (born 1981)American actor
Dylan McGowan (born 1991)Australian association football player
J. P. McGowan (1880–1952)Australian film director
Malcolm McGowan (born 1955)British rower
Tom McGowan (born 1959)actor

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

Surnames like McGowan

Try it on yourself

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.