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Bow

in Georgia

There are 13 people with the last name "Bow" in Georgia.

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Ranking in Georgia

NameRank
Bow 29,856
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  1. is 29,852nd most common Bour
  2. is 29,853rd most common Bourdeau
  3. is 29,854th most common Bourdon
  4. is 29,855th most common Bourroughs
  5. is 29,856th most common Bow
  6. is 29,857th most common Boxton
  7. is 29,858th most common Boyne
  8. is 29,859th most common Boys
  9. is 29,860th most common Boza

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Deborah, Dwaine, Gary, Jim, Kacky, Kelley, Mary, Michael, Roger, Susan

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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