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Bowden (surname)

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Bowden (pronounced /ˈbdən/ or /ˈbdən/) is an English surname of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) origins. In Old English it translates roughly into "dweller by the top of a hill", and is also the name of the towns of Bowden, Ashprington, and Bowden, Yealmpton, in Devon, as well as Bowden, Derbyshire. There is also a town of Bowden in rural Leicestershire which was recorded as "Bugedone" in the Domesday Book.[1]

People with the surname Bowden

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References

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  1. ^ "Surname Database: Bowden Last Name Origin".