Gower Family History

English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Gohiere, the Old French form of what is now known as Goelle, the country north of Paris.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Anglo-Norman French Goier, Joier, denoting a man from any of several places in Normandy and Picardy called Gouy, Joué, or Jouy (derived from the Latin personal name Gaudius, Old French Goi, Joi + -acum ‘joy’).

English (of Norman origin): from a Norman personal name Go(h)ier, ancient Germanic Godehar, cognate with the Old English name mentioned at Gooder.

Probably an Americanized form of German Gauer.