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Bow

in Illinois

There are 18 people with the last name "Bow" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Bow 57,495
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  1. is 57,491st most common Bote
  2. is 57,492nd most common Boudart
  3. is 57,493rd most common Bourisaw
  4. is 57,494th most common Boustead
  5. is 57,495th most common Bow
  6. is 57,496th most common Boyar
  7. is 57,497th most common Boyum
  8. is 57,498th most common Bozman
  9. is 57,499th most common Bozyk

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

David, Donald, Thomas, William, Daniel, Elaine, Everett, Joanna, Nan, Nicole

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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