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Bow

in New York

There are 89 people with the last name "Bow" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Bow 17,657
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  1. is 17,653rd most common Bilski
  2. is 17,654th most common Bleck
  3. is 17,655th most common Bluth
  4. is 17,656th most common Bohne
  5. is 17,657th most common Bow
  6. is 17,658th most common Branciforte
  7. is 17,659th most common Branker
  8. is 17,660th most common Breeze
  9. is 17,661st most common Bridgewater

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Mary, Diane, Gordon, John, Nancy, Shirley, Daniel, Donald, Elizabeth, Irene

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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