McGown
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Scottish Gaelic Mac Gobhann and Irish Gaelic Mac Gabhann, literally ‘son of the smith’; or from Scottish Gaelic Mac Owein, ‘son of Owen’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈɡaʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McGown is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Scottish Gaelic MacGobhann(measured from records)
- Scottish Gaelic MacOwein(measured from records)
from Scottish Gaelic Mac Gobhann and Irish Gaelic Mac Gabhann, literally ‘son of the smith’; or from Scottish Gaelic Mac Owein, ‘son of Owen’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tom McGownb. 1876GBIrish rugby union player (1876-1956)
- Eva McGownb. 1883GBOfficial hostess of Fairbanks, Alaska (1883-1972)
- Pearl McGownb. 1891USAmerican hooked rug designer
- Ken McGownb. 1936Australian rules footballer
- Richard McGownb. 1937GBscottish-Zimbabwean doctor and serial killer
- Jill McGownb. 1947writer of mystery novels (1947-2007)
- Rhoderick McGownb. 1972ZWZimbabwean swimmer
- Riley McGownb. 1996Australian athletics competitor (born 1996)
- Janet McGownGBaccused of witchcraft
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,721 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,318 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McGown mean, and where does it come from?
- from Scottish Gaelic Mac Gobhann and Irish Gaelic Mac Gabhann, literally ‘son of the smith’; or from Scottish Gaelic Mac Owein, ‘son of Owen’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce McGown?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡaʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McGown have the most bearers?
- McGown is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about McGown?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcgownThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “McGown”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.