Last name origins & meanings:
- English, Scottish, and Irish: nickname from Middle English
boner(e), bonour ‘gentle’, ‘courteous’, ‘handsome’ (Old
French bonnaire, from the phrase de bon(ne) aire ‘of
good bearing or appearance’, from which also comes modern English
debonair).
- Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap
Ynyr ‘son of Ynyr’, a common medieval personal name derived
from Latin Honorius.
- Swedish: unexplained.
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