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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : generally an ornamental name composed of the elements bo ‘dwelling’, ‘farm’ + man ‘man’, occasionally applied as a topographic name for someone who lived on an outlying homestead.
  • English : variant spelling of Bowman.

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