The boggs Surname
boggs Name Meaning and History
English: nickname from Middle English boggish ‘boastful’,
‘haughty’ (a word of unknown origin, perhaps akin to Germanic
bag and bug, with the literal meaning ‘swollen’, ‘puffed
up’). The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is
found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also
around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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