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Bow

in Maine

There are 2 people with the last name "Bow" in Maine.

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Ranking in Maine

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Bow 37,388
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  1. is 37,384th most common Bouyer
  2. is 37,385th most common Bouzan
  3. is 37,386th most common Bouzrara
  4. is 37,387th most common Bovino
  5. is 37,388th most common Bow
  6. is 37,389th most common Bowcock
  7. is 37,390th most common Bowcott
  8. is 37,391st most common Bowdidge
  9. is 37,392nd most common Bowdish

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Donald, Hayley

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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