Last name: BOWEN
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All you have to know about the last name BOWEN
Last name frequency
BOWEN : This last name is indexed 301,547 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BOWEN : 1: Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen) with fused patronymic marker (a)p which is normally voiced before a vowel.2: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’ a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan).3: Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’ a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’ see Nevin 1.
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