Last name origins & meanings:
- Swedish (Boé): from bo ‘farm’, ‘dwelling’ +
the ornamental suffix -é.
- Respelling of Norwegian
Bø or Bøe, a topographic name from Old Norse
býr ‘farm’.
- Danish: from Bo, a derivative
of the Nordic personal name Bui.
- Dutch and North German: reduced form of Bode, originally pronounced as two
syllables.
- Frisian (Böe): from the personal name
Boye.
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