Bowie

What Bowie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Bowie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 58% of US babies named Bowie in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Bowie?

US: Rising: up from #2386 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1902 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 237 boys got the name (#951 that year). First in the US records in 1920.

How common

• About 1 in 10,415 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,495 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,182 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.41 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.33 per 1,000 boys), OH (0.17 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Bowie is #1227 in the US and #379 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 58.4% of US babies named Bowie were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Bowie

Boys

• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Kohen#295Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #295 vs #896 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

For a sister

• Evie#270Editor’s note Up from #510 in 2015 to #270 in 2025 in the US
• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• Luna#27“the moon”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• River#219From the word “river”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Bowie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.