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Bow

in New Jersey

There are 28 people with the last name "Bow" in New Jersey.

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Bow 28,080
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  1. is 28,076th most common Borello
  2. is 28,077th most common Boseman
  3. is 28,078th most common Bourbon
  4. is 28,079th most common Bovo
  5. is 28,080th most common Bow
  6. is 28,081st most common Brailsford
  7. is 28,082nd most common Brandolini
  8. is 28,083rd most common Branning
  9. is 28,084th most common Bransfield

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

John, Thomas, Anker, Donald, Donna, Edward, Grazyna, Huong, Jean, Kenneth

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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