Boggs Family History
Boggs Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English boggish ‘boastful’,
‘haughty’ (a word of unknown origin, perhaps akin to Germanic
bag and bug, with the literal meaning ‘swollen’, ‘puffed
up’). The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is
found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also
around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
555,578
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Name Distribution of Boggs Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boggs families
 146 - 290  49 - 145 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Boggs families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boggs families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boggs Family Origin
Boggs Immigration Information
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Boggs Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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