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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places named Cowgill or Cow Gill, for example in Cumbria, Yorkshire, and Lancashire; all are named with Old Norse gil ‘narrow valley’, ‘ravine’ with various first elements including Old English ‘cow’ and Old English col ‘(char)coal’.

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