Entry № 1605 · Scottish origin

Bowie Bowie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Blond / fair-haired (David Bowie, rock legend)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "blond / fair-haired (david bowie, rock legend)".

Bowie is from the Scottish Gaelic buidhe (yellow, blond, fair-haired) — historically a surname. Bowie Jane — Australian-British singer. Bowie Strait — Antarctic waterway.

Blond / fair-haired.

The name in its native script.

Bowie
Transliteration
Bowie
Pronunciation
/ ˈboʊ.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bowie stands.

Bowie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bowies before her.

Real people
Jim Bowie
American frontiersman.
1796 – 1836
In fiction
Bowie
Modern celebrity naming.

Names connected to Bowie.

The number behind Bowie.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bowie reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.