Cowden Family History
Cowden Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of at least three
places named Cowden. One in Northumbria occurs in 1286 as
Colden and is derived from Old English col ‘(char)coal’
+ denu ‘valley’; that in East Yorkshire occurs in Domesday Book
as Coledun and is from Old English col + dun
‘hill’; while one in Kent is recorded in 1160 as Cudena and is
from Old English cu ‘cow’ + denn ‘pasture’. The last
does not appear to have yielded any surnames; the surname is more or
less restricted to northern England, and is also found in northern
Ireland, where it may be of Scottish origin, from places called Cowden
near Dollar and near Dalkeith, Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cowden Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cowden families
 28 - 54  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cowden families
|
35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cowden Family Origin
Cowden Emigration Information (US)
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Cowden Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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