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Bow

in Texas

There are 177 people with the last name "Bow" in Texas.

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Ranking in Texas

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Bow 9,572
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  1. is 9,568th most common Bazile
  2. is 9,569th most common Behnke
  3. is 9,570th most common Bencomo
  4. is 9,571st most common Bobadilla
  5. is 9,572nd most common Bow
  6. is 9,573rd most common Brinker
  7. is 9,574th most common Caver
  8. is 9,575th most common Chovanec
  9. is 9,576th most common Cloutier

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

John, Jack, Robert, Stephanie, William, Bill, David, Greg, Gregory, Linda

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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