Bowden

Etymology 1

 * As an English surname, from several places in England, derived from +.
 * Also as an English surname, from 🇨🇬.
 * As a Scottish surname, from the place in Roxburghshire from 🇨🇬 +.
 * As an surname, Anglicized from   (compare ).
 * Also as an English surname, variant of.

Etymology 2
, but the most accepted theory is that it originated from the maiden name of the wife of a surveyor named Williamson, who named the settlement along the Edmonton–Calgary Trail. Another theory states it originated from the village of Bowdon in Greater Manchester, England.