Bowgen Family History
Bowgen Name Meaning
from Old French bulzun bouzon bozon buzun boujon bougon ‘arrow crossbow bolt (with a large head)’ used as a heraldic device but perhaps also metaphorically of a person who bore some physical resemblance to a bolt. Compare Bolt . Of the two pronunciations of the name Boujon persisted in E Anglia while B(o)uzon may have survived as Busson in SW England.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016