Last name: COWLING
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COWLING : This last name is indexed 32,780 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COWLING : English:: 3: variant of Colling.1: habitational name from either of two places called Cowling in Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. The former is named with Old English coll ‘hill-top’ + the placename forming suffix -ing meaning ‘hill-top place’.2: variant of Cooling.
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