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Bow

in Arizona

There are 21 people with the last name "Bow" in Arizona.

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Ranking in Arizona

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Bow 21,607
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  1. is 21,603rd most common Boseck
  2. is 21,604th most common Botelho
  3. is 21,605th most common Botsford
  4. is 21,606th most common Boulet
  5. is 21,607th most common Bow
  6. is 21,608th most common Boy
  7. is 21,609th most common Brackenbury
  8. is 21,610th most common Brader
  9. is 21,611th most common Bram

Similar Names and Nicknames

Boe, Bou, Bo, Boy, Boo, Bew, Boh, Boa, Boi, Baw

Most Common First Names for Bow

Jeremy, Agnes, Anderson, Candace, Eugene, Jimmy, Joseph, Julian, Leland, Leslie

Meaning & History

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Bow

English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bows, from Middle English bow (Old English boga, from būgan ‘to bend’). Before the invention of gunpowder, the bow was an important long-range weapon for shooting game as well as in warfare. Boga is also found as a personal name in Old English, and it is possible that this survived into Middle English and so may lie behind the surname in some instances. In other cases (for example, Richard atte Bowe, 1306), the name is topographic, from the same word in the transferred sense ‘arched bridge’, ‘river bend’, an allusion to their similarity in shape to a drawn bow.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue).

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