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Bow

in Connecticut

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

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Ranking in Connecticut

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Bow 25,650
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  1. is 25,646th most common Botteon
  2. is 25,647th most common Bou
  3. is 25,648th most common Bourcier
  4. is 25,649th most common Bovi
  5. is 25,650th most common Bow
  6. is 25,651st most common Bracone
  7. is 25,652nd most common Brandriff
  8. is 25,653rd most common Brantner
  9. is 25,654th most common Brass

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Thomas, David, Diana, Douglas, Eileen, Jessica, Joseph, Karen, Kedean

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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