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The bost Surname

bost Name Meaning and History

  1. French (central France): variant of Bois.
  2. German: from a reduced form of the personal name Sebastian.
  3. North German: nickname for a self-important man, from Low German bost ‘chest’, ‘breast’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bost Families in the US in 1920
Number of bost families
 123-243
 42-122		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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