Bowie

Where Bowie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Bowie.

  • Vowel-ended
Bowie through the years
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,286 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1926
    Bowie Kuhn born
    American baseball commissioner
  3. 1973
    Bowie Tsang born
    Taiwanese and Hong Kong actress and singer
  4. 2014
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  5. 2021
    Peak, #951
    237 babies named Bowie, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Bowie Kuhn · American baseball commissioner, 1926–2007
  • Bowie Tsang · Taiwanese and Hong Kong actress and singer, born 1973
  • Bowie Wu · Hong Kong male actor, programme host, and singer, born 1932
  • Bowie Cheung · Hong Kong actress, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.