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Bow

in Indiana

There are 70 people with the last name "Bow" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Bow 9,050
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  1. is 9,046th most common Bergin
  2. is 9,047th most common Berkemeier
  3. is 9,048th most common Berkley
  4. is 9,049th most common Bousum
  5. is 9,050th most common Bow
  6. is 9,051st most common Bowley
  7. is 9,052nd most common Camarena
  8. is 9,053rd most common Capehart
  9. is 9,054th most common Cauble

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Charles, Anna, Benton, Curtis, Gary, Imogene, Jack, Jerry, Leeann, Mary

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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