The Cowart surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,621 people carried this name — #3,095 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 25,400 people counted. That is up 3% from 11,243 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Cowart surname

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as an occupational name: ‘the cow-herd’.

An early record he cites: Cecilia Cowehird, 1379 — Poll Tax, West Riding of Yorkshire.

His entry covers Coward and Cowart.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 211 · public domain.

In print

Cowart in American newspapers,
1897–1922.

Newspaper page from The Providence News carrying the name Cowart
The Providence News 1903-08-17
Newspaper page from The San Francisco Call carrying the name Cowart
The San Francisco Call 1897-03-25
Newspaper page from The Lake County Times carrying the name Cowart
The Lake County Times 1922-10-27

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 21,455 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Cowart in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

117 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Cowart. The most, 29, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 3.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 84
New South Wales 10
Victoria 10
Western Australia 7
South Australia 3
Tasmania 2
ACT (Canberra) 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Cowart.

Who carried it

People named Cowart,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Gwendolyne Cowart 1920–2003 · aircraft pilot
  • Edward Cowart 1925–1987 · judge
  • Delma Cowart 1941–2021 · racing driver
  • Dax Cowart 1947–2019 · lawyer

Wikidata (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Cowart,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States536 records

536 records of the Cowart name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 411
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 102
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 6
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 6
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record John R. Cowart

    Born 1911 in Mississippi. Enlisted 1940 at Meadville; farm hand from Franklin County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2000, buried at Mount Gilead Prim Bapt Cemetery, Smithdale, Mississippi.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record David Lawrence Cowart

    Born 1947; from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. U.S. Marine Corps, machinegunner; killed in action 1967 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Charlie W. Cowart

    U.S. Army veteran. Born 1879, died 1949; buried at Barrancas National Cemetery, Florida.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 536 records for Cowart in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Norway1 record

1 record of the Cowart name in Norway Norway's 1910 census
  1. A page of the 1910 United States census, Milwaukee
    Example: U.S. census, 1910
    Census record Hans Cowart

    Census of 1910: Kronens gård Mo, Hitterdal; born 1885 in Skien.

    Arkivverket, Digitalarkivet, 1910 census (CC BY 3.0 NO)

Counts: Arkivverket, Digitalarkivet, 1910 census (CC BY 3.0 NO). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. census of 1910, Milwaukee (public domain).

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Surnames next to Cowart.

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