The bowdish Surname
bowdish Name Meaning and History
Probably an altered form of the English surname
Bowditch. Alternatively, it could be Americanized spelling of
the eastern German family name Baudisch, from the Old Slavic
stem buditi ‘to wake’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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