Last Name GOWARD

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: A corrupted form of Gower with an excrescent 'd.' Similar to Simmonds for Simmons in that respect. Nevertheless it may be a personal name, and mean 'the son of Goward,' i.e. Godward.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 52,714 (2000 US census)
Count 369 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 82.93%, or 306 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 11.65%, or 43 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.36%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 1.9%, or 7 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

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