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Bow

in Rhode Island

There is 1 person with the last name "Bow" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Bow 53,430
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  1. is 53,426th most common Boveda
  2. is 53,427th most common Bovell
  3. is 53,428th most common Bovelle
  4. is 53,429th most common Bovrgoin
  5. is 53,430th most common Bow
  6. is 53,431st most common Bowa
  7. is 53,432nd most common Bowdin
  8. is 53,433rd most common Bowdre
  9. is 53,434th most common Bowell

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Ann

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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