Släkthistoria för Boy
Boy Vad efternamn betyder
English: from the Middle English personal name Boie which may be from ancient Germanic Boio (see Boye 1 and ) or an Old English Boia. The latter is common as a first element in English placenames and is difficult to tell apart from the ordinary word boy to which it may be related. English: from Middle English boy ‘young man servant’ also ‘knave’ or ‘rogue’. Compare Ladd. Scottish and Irish: variant of Bowie. German: variant of Boye. Germanized form of Sorbian Boj: from a short form of a Slavic personal name containing the element boj ‘fight’ such as Bojsław. French: variant of Bois.7: Americanized form of Croatian and Slovenian Boj: probably from a short form of a Slavic personal name containing the element boj ‘fight’ (compare 5 above).8: Burmese: apparently a variant of Bo 5.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
