First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
German: from a short form of the Late Latin personal name Bonifatius (see Boniface). In the Rhineland area it may also be from the dialect personal name Servaes (see Faas).
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