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bove Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian and Catalan (Bové): from Italian bove, Catalan bové ‘ox’ (from Latin bos, genitive bovis), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a plowman or herdsman or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox in some way, for example in being fat or patient.
  2. Danish: nickname from bouæ ‘villain’, ‘wretch’, or from the old personal name Bovi.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bove Families in the US in 1920
Number of bove families
 32-62
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 46 - Messages: 235
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BOVE' Ger>NY>NJ Patrisia Rawlins-Manusos 20
FIS-BOVE asanguy 0
Bove history... Tony Bove 45
Bove, Charles T. (OBIT PA 10-24-2006) myobituarysite 0
Bove, Charles T. (OBIT PA 10-23-2006) myobituarysite 0
BOVE' WITH ACCENT OVER E' ELEANOR BOVE' PERROTTA 1
My branch of the family TeodoroBove 45
Vincenzo Bove, from Alife - Caserta Ted Bové 7
Bove Mary 0
Lost the accented E but found a cousin?? Kevin Emil Bove 5
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