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boas Name Meaning and History

Jewish, English, and Scottish: from the Biblical personal name Boas or Boaz. In 18th-century Britain this surname was found as far apart as St. Ives in Cornwall and Dundee in Scotland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the boas family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of boas Families in the US in 1920
Number of boas families
 29-55
 10-28		 1-9
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