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Bow

in Idaho

There are 30 people with the last name "Bow" in Idaho.

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Ranking in Idaho

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Bow 5,239
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  1. is 5,235th most common Bixler
  2. is 5,236th most common Blickenstaff
  3. is 5,237th most common Borchardt
  4. is 5,238th most common Boudreau
  5. is 5,239th most common Bow
  6. is 5,240th most common Bowes
  7. is 5,241st most common Bramwell
  8. is 5,242nd most common Briseno
  9. is 5,243rd most common Brownfield

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Angela, Bryan, Daniel, Keith, Miguel, Stephanie, Amaia, Brian, Donald, Guadalupe

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Meaning & History

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Bow

1. 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.

2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue).

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