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Bow

in the US

There are 1,448 people with the last name "Bow" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Bow 15,971
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  1. is 15,967th most common Sorge
  2. is 15,968th most common Ulery
  3. is 15,969th most common Alspaugh
  4. is 15,970th most common Bashir
  5. is 15,971st most common Bow
  6. is 15,972nd most common Dorsch
  7. is 15,973rd most common Godby
  8. is 15,974th most common Goodlett
  9. is 15,975th most common Junge

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bow

John, Robert, James, David, William, Mary, Daniel, Thomas, Donald, Michael

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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