Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and Gloucestershire called Cowhill, from Old English cū ‘cow’ + hyll ‘hill’.
- possibly also an Americanized form of Polish, Jewish, and Sorbian Kowal.
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