Family name origins & meanings
- Ukrainian : see Bobak.
- Americanized spelling of Czech, Slovak, or Polish Bobak.
- Americanized spelling of the German habitational name Bobach, a habitational name derived from various farmsteads or rivers so named, or from place names such as Bobeck and Bobek.
- Possibly a Swedish ornamental name composed of the elements bo ‘farm’ + back ‘hillside’ or an altered spelling of Swedish Bobäck, an ornamental compound of bo + bäck ‘stream’.