Boy name origins & meanings Welsh : Son of Owen Boy name variations Bowie Bowan Bowin Bowon Bowyn Bowynn Family name origins & meanings English, of Welsh origin : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan).
