Boye: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

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What Boye means

Your Boye ancestor may well appear as Boyer in earlier records. Its meaning, shared with Boyer, is “Ox-herd, cattleman”.

Boye is listed among the recognised spellings of Boyer. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Other spellings include Boyers and Bojer. The 2010 US Census counted 1,008 people named Boye, ranking it number 24,736 among American surnames. In the Spanish register, Boye appears 437 times as a first surname and 131 times as a second one.

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