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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Frisian : variant of Böe (see Boe 5).
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farms in southwestern Norway named Boge, from Old Norse bugr ‘hook’, ‘bay’, ‘bend’, with reference to an inlet or a bend in a river.

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