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Bow

in New Hampshire

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

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Ranking in New Hampshire

NameRank
Bow 46,732
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  1. is 46,728th most common Boverman
  2. is 46,729th most common Bovi
  3. is 46,730th most common Bovin
  4. is 46,731st most common Bovinet
  5. is 46,732nd most common Bow
  6. is 46,733rd most common Bowblis
  7. is 46,734th most common Bowick
  8. is 46,735th most common Bowkett
  9. is 46,736th most common Bowks

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Lake, Mills

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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