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The GOWANS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 998 23683 0 4
United States (1880 census) 109 29742 0 2
Change since 1880 +889 +6059 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 262 5897 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,020 5197 0.002 22
Top States for GOWANS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 147 2263 0.007 66
Texas 117 15029 0.001 6
California 83 30311 0.000 2
New York 58 34741 0.000 3
South Carolina 58 7357 0.001 14
Top States for GOWANS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 147 2263 0.007 66
Idaho 20 9917 0.002 15
Vermont 9 9819 0.001 15
South Carolina 58 7357 0.001 14
Arizona 45 13384 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GOWANS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GOWANS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GOWANS in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GOWANS by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GOWANS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOWANS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GOWANS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GOWANS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 604 60.52
Black/African American 335 33.57
White (Hispanic) 31 3.11
Asian/Pacific 14 1.4
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GOWANS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GOWANS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GOWANS.

Similar names to GOWANS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOWANS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GOWANS

The following words are slight variants of GOWANS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.