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mcgowan Name Meaning and History

Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gobhann (Scottish) and Mac Gabhann (Irish) ‘son of the smith’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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mcgowan Family Facts

Distribution of mcgowan Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcgowan families
 250-498
 84-249
 1-83
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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