Last name origins & meanings:
- German: of uncertain origin; probably from Old High German
būan ‘to live at a place’, or an occupational name from
Middle High German bū, bou ‘cultivation’ or perhaps
from a short form of compounds with this element, such as
Bauhofer, Baumann.
- French: of uncertain
origin. Perhaps a variant of Beau meaning ‘handsome’, though it
has also been suggested that it may derive from an obsolete personal
name of Germanic origin.
- Chinese:
variant of
Bao 1. - Chinese:
variant of Bao 2. - Chinese:
variant of Bao 3. - A Bau from the Angoumois region in France is recorded in Montreal
in 1667; another, also known as Lebeau and Lalouette, from the Poitou
region, is documented in Boucherville, Quebec, in 1672.
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