Bow Family History
Bow Name Meaning
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various minor places called with Old English boga ‘bow arch vault’ i.e. an arched bridge. There are places so called in Midlothian Middlesex and Devon. Irish and English: variant of Bowes . Chinese: possibly from Cantonese form of the Chinese names 寶 (meaning ‘treasure’) or 保 (meaning ‘protect’) which were monosyllabic personal names or part of disyllabic personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 包 and 鮑 see Bao 1 and
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022