Bowden
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Bowden¹
- /ˈbaʊdən/
Rhymes with -aʊdən
Where it comes from
* As an English surname, from several places in England, derived from Old English boga (“bow”) + dun (“hill”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English būfan dun (“above the hill”).
* As a Scottish surname, from the place in Roxburghshire from Old English bōthl (“dwelling house”) + denu (“valley”).
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Buadáin (literally “descendant of Buadán”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Bawden.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Stoke Fleming parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8448).
- A hamlet in Kington Magna parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7723).
- A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NT5530).
- An unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
Bowden²
- /ˈboʊdən/ Canada
Where it comes from
Uncertain, but the most accepted theory is that it originated from the maiden name of the wife of a surveyor named Williamson, who named the settlement along the Edmonton–Calgary Trail. Another theory states it originated from the
village of Bowdon in Greater Manchester, England.
proper noun
- A town in Alberta, Canada.
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