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The boen Surname

boen Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: variant of Boone.
  2. Norwegian (Bøen): habitational name from a common farm name Bøen ‘The Farm’, from bø ‘farm’ or ‘meadow’ (Old Norse býr) + the definite article -en.
  3. Respelling of Swedish Böen, cognate with 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The boen name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the boen family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of boen Families in the US in 1920
Number of boen families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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