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Bow

in Minnesota

There are 5 people with the last name "Bow" in Minnesota.

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Ranking in Minnesota

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Bow 73,598
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  1. is 73,594th most common Bourdages
  2. is 73,595th most common Bourdykin
  3. is 73,596th most common Boutall
  4. is 73,597th most common Bouts
  5. is 73,598th most common Bow
  6. is 73,599th most common Bowdin
  7. is 73,600th most common Bowditch
  8. is 73,601st most common Bowitz
  9. is 73,602nd most common Bowley

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Christopher, James, Lavinav, Lois, Wow

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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