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Bow

in Maryland

There are 14 people with the last name "Bow" in Maryland.

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Ranking in Maryland

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Bow 29,771
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  1. is 29,767th most common Botelho
  2. is 29,768th most common Bottalico
  3. is 29,769th most common Botto
  4. is 29,770th most common Boughton
  5. is 29,771st most common Bow
  6. is 29,772nd most common Bowell
  7. is 29,773rd most common Bowrin
  8. is 29,774th most common Boyarsky
  9. is 29,775th most common Bozic

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Patricia, Awa, Carolyn, Garnett, Herbert, James, Joseph, Joyce, Judy

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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