Nicknames

These names were contributed by friends at the Bowes One-Name Study facebook page. Feel free to send your additions in to this important archive!!!

Bowesly

Bowesy

Elbows (first initial L)

Bowes and Arrows

Bozo the Clown

Buttons and Bowes

Buttons Bowes

Bowes (sans first name – common!)

Bowes (pronounced as a dog’s bark ‘bow wow’)

Booer-vis (Afrikaans pronunciation of Bowes, maybe not a true nickname)

Bozo

Boooodeee (long vowels based on the Irish Buadhaigh)

Sir

Bowzer

Bowsie (as in bo/zi, gets pronounced as in bow of ship)

Rambowes

Bowman’s Capsule

BoBo

Bowes Knows

Nosey Bowsie

Boasey

Bowesky

Bim (as in Bimbos)