Bogen Family History
Bogen Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for an archer bowman or bow maker from Middle High German boge ‘bow’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German (Regen)bogen ‘rainbow’ or from German Bogen (Yiddish boigen) ‘arch bow’. Norwegian: habitational name from any of various farmsteads so named with Old Norse bugr (see Boge ) + the definite article -en. Irish: from Ó Bogáin see Bogan .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022