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The boye Surname

boye Name Meaning and History

  1. English, North German, Dutch, Frisian, and Danish: from a Germanic personal name, Boio or Bogo, of uncertain origin. It may represent a variant of Bothe, with the regular Low German loss of the dental between vowels, but a cognate name appears to have existed in Old English (see Boyce), where this feature does not occur. Boje is still in use as a personal name in Friesland.
  2. Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch boy(e) ‘boy’, ‘lad’.

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Distribution of boye Families in the US in 1920
Number of boye families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
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