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Bow

in Vermont

There are 7 people with the last name "Bow" in Vermont.

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Ranking in Vermont

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Bow 10,062
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  1. is 10,058th most common Bosman
  2. is 10,059th most common Botelho
  3. is 10,060th most common Bottino
  4. is 10,061st most common Bouley
  5. is 10,062nd most common Bow
  6. is 10,063rd most common Bowes
  7. is 10,064th most common Boy
  8. is 10,065th most common Boyles
  9. is 10,066th most common Brabham

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Adam, Alison, Joanne, Linda, Martha, Rodger, Vt

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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