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:
French: nickname for a powerfully built man, from boeuf ‘bull’, with the definite article le. In some cases it may have been originally a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman. Compare Bouvier.