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Bowden
BOW-duhn
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An English and Scottish surname, and the name of several villages in England, Scotland, and North America.
"His surname was Bowden, after the family's Devon roots."
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Etymology
As an English surname, from Old English boga ("bow") plus dun ("hill"); as a Scottish surname, from a place in Roxburghshire.