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Bow in the US

  1. #15,793 Lichty
  2. #15,794 Lourenco
  3. #15,795 Oberry
  4. #15,796 Vosburgh
  5. #15,797 Bow
  6. #15,798 Burchette
  7. #15,799 Flax
  8. #15,800 Heuser
  9. #15,801 Knupp
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BOW

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1,600
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Meaning & Origins

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.
15,797th in the U.S. for 2011

Nicknames & variations

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

Quick facts

Hundreds
of people in the U.S have this name
1,600
to be exact (as of February 2011)
Hawaii
has the most people named Bow per capita

Top state populations

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Bow is most likely to live in California, Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, and New York

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