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Question by  npyro528 (30)

What does the name "Cowans" mean?

Does it have anything to do with farming?

 
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Answer by  Madalina (46)

The 'Cowans' name is derived from gowan. which in the irish language is a smith. A Cowan is a man, who builds walls without mortar - as any farm hand in Old Europe may do, piling into a wall the stones from the nearby streams or turned up in ploughing.

 
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Answer by  angie49 (56)

Name Cowans is of Irish and Gaelic origin,in Gaelic the meaning of the name Cowans is: Dwells by the hillside hollow.So,it's not related to farming. Cowans is an uncommon first name for men but a very common last name for men and women.

 
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