Bowie

Meaning: Yellow-haired, fair
Origin: Gaelic "son of the yellow lad" (from Scottish Gaelic (surname also from Irish))

Girl's name · #1736 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

38% girls · 62% boys — About 62% of babies named Bowie in recent years have been boys. Bowie →

Popularity over time

The whole story of Bowie fits in one generation — unrecorded before 2006, about 1,300 girls since, and a 2025 rank of #1736 (120 newborns last year).

In recent years, Bowie ran about 6× its national rate in Utah.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 12 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

See how Bowie ranks in other countries and regions.

#180 in Netherlands (2025) · #357 in Ireland (2025) · #1,039 in Belgium (2025) · #1,419 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,305 in Canada (2024).

Bowie Tsang — Taiwanese and Hong Kong actress and singer
Bowie Jane — Australian-American DJ, producer, singer-songwriter, barrister, and reality television participant

It is also an American family name — about 12,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Among 16 notable people named Bowie:

Entertainers appear 2.82× more often than among typical names — e.g. Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese and Hong Kong actress and singer.

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