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Bowden.

A surname.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈbaʊdən/

  1. A surname.

  2. A place name: A hamlet in Stoke Fleming parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX8448).

  3. A place name: A hamlet in Kington Magna parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7723).

  4. A place name: A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NT5530).

  5. A place name: An unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States.

  6. A place name: A census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

Where this word 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.

name/ˈboʊdən/Canada

  1. A town in Alberta, Canada.

Where this word 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.

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