Boe

Family name origins & meanings

• Swedish (Boé) : from bo ‘farm’, ‘dwelling’ + the ornamental suffix -é.
• Respelling of Norwegian Bø or Bøe, a topographic name from Old Norse býr ‘farm’.
• Danish : from Bo, a derivative of the Nordic personal name Bui.
• Dutch and North German : reduced form of Bode, originally pronounced as two syllables.
• Frisian (Böe) : from the personal name Boye.