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Bow

in Oklahoma

There are 21 people with the last name "Bow" in Oklahoma.

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Ranking in Oklahoma

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Bow 14,159
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  1. is 14,155th most common Bohlman
  2. is 14,156th most common Borin
  3. is 14,157th most common Bottorff
  4. is 14,158th most common Bourke
  5. is 14,159th most common Bow
  6. is 14,160th most common Brad
  7. is 14,161st most common Bramble
  8. is 14,162nd most common Brazee
  9. is 14,163rd most common Bredel

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Brooke, William, Alien, Beverly, Darrel, Darrell, Diana, Eric

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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