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Bow

in South Carolina

There are 3 people with the last name "Bow" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Bow 55,415
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  1. is 55,411th most common Bovaird
  2. is 55,412th most common Bovard
  3. is 55,413th most common Bovey
  4. is 55,414th most common Bovit
  5. is 55,415th most common Bow
  6. is 55,416th most common Bowders
  7. is 55,417th most common Bowels
  8. is 55,418th most common Bowhall
  9. is 55,419th most common Bowland

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Andrea, Douglass, Tina

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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