Bow Family History
Bow Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of
bows, from Middle English bow (Old English boga, from
bugan ‘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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bow families
 30 - 58  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bow families
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45 - 87 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bow families
|
56 - 109 19 - 55 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bow Family Origin
Bow Immigration Information
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Bow Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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