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Bow

in Kansas

There are 11 people with the last name "Bow" in Kansas.

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Ranking in Kansas

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Bow 22,156
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  1. is 22,152nd most common Botteron
  2. is 22,153rd most common Boughfman
  3. is 22,154th most common Bousfield
  4. is 22,155th most common Bovee
  5. is 22,156th most common Bow
  6. is 22,157th most common Bowe
  7. is 22,158th most common Bownes
  8. is 22,159th most common Bowring
  9. is 22,160th most common Bozone

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Delmira, Mary, Wallace, Bev, Creek, Larry, Robert, Tom

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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