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Bow

in California

There are 155 people with the last name "Bow" in California.

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Ranking in California

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Bow 14,295
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  1. is 14,291st most common Beane
  2. is 14,292nd most common Beckstrom
  3. is 14,293rd most common Benveniste
  4. is 14,294th most common Boozer
  5. is 14,295th most common Bow
  6. is 14,296th most common Buggs
  7. is 14,297th most common Cabana
  8. is 14,298th most common Carachure
  9. is 14,299th most common Carnevale

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Robert, Ronald, Tina, David, Ian, Jamel, James, Jennifer, John, 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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Robert Bow, CA (9 searches)
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