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Bow

in Kentucky

There are 115 people with the last name "Bow" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Bow 3,661
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  1. is 3,657th most common Veatch
  2. is 3,658th most common Warman
  3. is 3,659th most common Willhite
  4. is 3,660th most common Wyrick
  5. is 3,661st most common Bow
  6. is 3,662nd most common Bridgeman
  7. is 3,663rd most common Chatman
  8. is 3,664th most common Clemens
  9. is 3,665th most common Comley

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

James, Kevin, Linda, Roxanne, Sharon, Tom, Angela, Barbie, Brandon, Carolyn

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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James Bow, KY (4 searches)
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