Given name & surname
Bowley
“bow; riverbend”
Bowley is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bowley goes back to Old English boga, meaning “bow; riverbend.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English boga (“bow; riverbend”), built from English bow + -leigh (“lea”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Similar names
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“woodland clearing, glade”
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“woodland clearing, glade”
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“woodland clearing, glade”
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Sibling ideas
Names that share Bowley’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.