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Bow

in West Virginia

There are 6 people with the last name "Bow" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Bow 16,476
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  1. is 16,472nd most common Boukhemis
  2. is 16,473rd most common Boutwell
  3. is 16,474th most common Bovee
  4. is 16,475th most common Bovey
  5. is 16,476th most common Bow
  6. is 16,477th most common Bowders
  7. is 16,478th most common Bowels
  8. is 16,479th most common Boye
  9. is 16,480th most common Boyette

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

Charles, Charlie, David, Gina, Richard

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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