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I think this has question has come up before and we are all baffled. At least I am! I'm not aware of a celebrity who's used it. I don't really get the appeal for it as a boy's name either, although that makes more sense. I'm inclined to say people who use it perhaps don't realise that it's a masculine word (obviously weren't paying attention in French lessons). And the word beau meaning boyfriend is fairly archaic these days, but who knows?

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Pie pointed out there are 25 girls named Bow and 24 called Boe which I guess could be miss-spellings. I had a friend on Facebook with a stepson called Beau and I used to see some people referring to him Bow in comments.

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In addition there is also Bo (40 uses), Beaux (21), Daisy-Beau (6), Beau-Lily (4), Bella-Beau (4), Lilly-Beau (3) and my new favourite, Pixie-Beau which three people decided was the best name in the whole world for their daughter!

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