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Bow

in Arkansas

There are 15 people with the last name "Bow" in Arkansas.

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Ranking in Arkansas

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Bow 13,066
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  1. is 13,062nd most common Boring
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  5. is 13,066th most common Bow
  6. is 13,067th most common Bowyer
  7. is 13,068th most common Boyt
  8. is 13,069th most common Bradke
  9. is 13,070th most common Bramall

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Amanda, Billy, David, Debbie, Ira, Jenni, Jennifer, Johnny, Justin, Kendra

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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