Given name & surname

Bowles

Bowles is a surname.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Bowles is a form of Bowell. Bowell comes from Norman.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Bowles’s family of names

In English usage, Bowles as a surname has a related form in BOWELL. In Greek usage, Bowles as a surname is a transliteration of Μπόουλες.

Walk Bowles’s family in the name graph

BowlesΜπόουλεςBowellБоулз

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Bowles has relatives in 3 languages.

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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