Släkthistoria för Boye
Boye Vad efternamn betyder
North German and Danish: from an ancient Germanic personal name Boio possibly meaning ‘boy’ (see Boy ) or alternatively representing a variant of Bothe with the regular Low German loss of the dental between vowels. This surname is also found in Norway and Sweden. Compare Boie. English: variant of Boy a cognate of 1 above. Irish and Scottish: variant of Bowie. Norwegian (Bøye): variant of Bøje a habitational name from the farm name Bøje in the province of Oppland the dative plural case of Old Norse bǿr ‘farmstead’. Compare Boyer. French (Boyé): variant of Boyer. West African (mainly Senegal): name found among the Wolof people of unexplained etymology.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
