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boman Name Meaning and History

  1. Swedish: generally an ornamental name composed of the elements bo ‘dwelling’, ‘farm’ + man ‘man’, occasionally applied as a topographic name for someone who lived on an outlying homestead.
  2. English: variant spelling of Bowman.

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

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

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Distribution of boman Families in the US in 1920
Number of boman families
 31-60
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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