Släkthistoria för Boby
Boby Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Boothby with loss of medial -th-. Some of the bearers listed below may alternatively belong at (2). of uncertain origin. If not the name in (1) by migration perhaps a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English *bobi ‘a childish foolish inept or blundering person’ first attested in about 1600 (OED at booby).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
