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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : from the short form of a Slavic personal name (Bogumil ‘dear to God’, for example), equivalent to Gottlieb, with the same meaning.
  • Polish and Ukrainian (Boguś) : variant of Bogusz.

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