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Bow

in Washington

There are 36 people with the last name "Bow" in Washington.

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Ranking in Washington

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Bow 16,129
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  1. is 16,125th most common Bolieu
  2. is 16,126th most common Boney
  3. is 16,127th most common Borgens
  4. is 16,128th most common Borrego
  5. is 16,129th most common Bow
  6. is 16,130th most common Bozich
  7. is 16,131st most common Brawner
  8. is 16,132nd most common Broad
  9. is 16,133rd most common Bumpus

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Gerald, Jeffery, Joseph, Ken, Lisa, Thurston, Beverly, Clifford, David

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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