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Bowden

//ˈbaʊdən// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A town in Alberta, Canada.
  3. 3
    A place name:; A hamlet in Stoke Fleming parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8448).
  4. 4
    A place name:; A hamlet in Kington Magna parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7723).
  5. 5
    A place name:; A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NT5530).
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  1. 6
    A place name:; An unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States.
  2. 7
    A place name:; A census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

Etymology

Etymology 1

* 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.

Etymology 2

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.

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