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Bow

in Massachusetts

There are 20 people with the last name "Bow" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Bow 29,606
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  1. is 29,602nd most common Boutchia
  2. is 29,603rd most common Bouzianis
  3. is 29,604th most common Bovell
  4. is 29,605th most common Bovill
  5. is 29,606th most common Bow
  6. is 29,607th most common Bows
  7. is 29,608th most common Boyda
  8. is 29,609th most common Bozak
  9. is 29,610th most common Boze

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Kevin, Heidi, Thomas, Buddy, Chin, Cynthia, Jeffrey, Kelly, Krys, Krystal

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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