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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Boye.
  • Jarvis Boykin was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.

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