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Bow

in Florida

There are 62 people with the last name "Bow" in Florida.

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Ranking in Florida

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Bow 24,229
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  1. is 24,225th most common Bernales
  2. is 24,226th most common Biegler
  3. is 24,227th most common Blomgren
  4. is 24,228th most common Bossard
  5. is 24,229th most common Bow
  6. is 24,230th most common Bozzo
  7. is 24,231st most common Briant
  8. is 24,232nd most common Brodrick
  9. is 24,233rd most common Brodt

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

John, William, Winston, Barbara, Craig, Deborah, Dolores, Donald, James

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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John Bow, FL (8 searches)
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