Bowie (surname)


Bowie is a Scottish and Irish surname. The name can be derived from the Gaelic nickname buidhe, meaning "yellow", "fair-haired". The surname can also be an Anglicised form of the Irish surname Ó Buadhaigh; this surname means "descendant of Buadhach" and is also rendered as Bogue and Boyce. The personal name Buadhach means "victorious". The surname Bowie is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as Buidheach and Bhuidheach, as well as Mac'IlleBhuidhe and Nic'IlleBhuidhe. Early instances of the surname in Scotland, recorded in 1481, are: Boye, Bowy, and Boee.
A family of the surname, the Bowie family, was one of the colonial families of Maryland with John Bowie, Sr. being the first Bowie in the colony.

People with the surname