Buie Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Buie is a familiar spelling of the Scottish name Bowie. The name is generally explained as “Fair-haired”.

• The same family of names includes Bouie and Bowey.
• Before spelling was fixed, Bowie was also written Buie.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Buie with 5,943 bearers, at rank 5,816. It sits within the 10,000 most common last names in the country.

Heraldry and the Buie name

Arms linked to Bowie and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Buie report, with a museum-style coat of arms.