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boileau Name Meaning and History

French: from the Old French verb boi(re) ‘to drink’ + the definite article l’ + eau ‘water’, hence a nickname, perhaps for a teetotaler, perhaps for a drinker, or perhaps for someone who was so parsimonious he was prepared to run the risk of drinking water. Compare Drinkwater.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of boileau Families in the US in 1920
Number of boileau families
 17-32
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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