Bowe
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BOH
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Bowe is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
Where does Bowe come from?
English: surname, also a spelling of Bo
Is Bowe a girl's or a boy's name?
Bowe is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bowe in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 6 boys.
Bowe in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,188 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
How popular is Bowe in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Bowe, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.
2025 had fewer boys named Bowe than any year since 2012.
Half of all the boys named Bowe in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,153 boys in the US were given Bowe or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #51, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
Bowe in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,613 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,871 |
| 1995 | 7 | #6,985 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,715 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,121 |
Names like Bowe
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Albie, Ace, Jude, Cove, Blake, Rafe, Oakley, Tate, Rome, Hudson, Bear, Jaxon
Other spellings of Bowe
Names related to Bowe
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bowe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bowe, updated 20 October 2026.