Given name & surname
Gow
“a smith”
Gow is used as a given name and a surname. One Scottish interpretation is “a smith.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scottish interpretation is “a smith.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scottish.
Gow’s family of names
Gow has a related form in Gowan. Gow has a related form in Gowe. In Irish usage, Gow as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the German form Schmidt.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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