Definition of "Cowan"

A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)  examples

A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)  examples

A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.  examples

A city in Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.  examples

A town in New South Wales. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.  examples

A town in Manitoba.  examples

A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.  examples