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Boye

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Frisian name

1a) Younger form of the Old Frisian name Bôio = 'dweller' (Old Saxon bûan and Old Frisian bōgia = 'to live, to dwell'), related to the Norse name Búi [1]

1b) Younger form of the Old Saxon name Boio = 'dweller' (Gothic *Bauja = 'dweller') [2] [3]

2a) Pet form of Old Frisian brōther, Old Saxon brōthar = 'brother', which is related to the English word boy [2] [4] [5] [6]

2b) Germanic bovo = 'boy' [7]

3) Pet form of Old High German Bodo [2] [4] [7] [3] [8] [6]

4) Pet form of names containing the Germanic name element BAUG [2] [4] [7] [5] [6]

5) Pet form of Boudewijn (= Frisian form of Baldewin) [2]

6) From a Frisian word related to Norwegian byde = 'to offer, to bid' [5]

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Boie ♂
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Boj ♂
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Boje ♂
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Boy ♂
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Boye ♂
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Boyine ♀
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 Norwegian
Bøje ♂
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 Danish
Bøy ♂
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Bøye ♂
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Bøyine ♀
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Patronyms

Norwegian: Boyesen (♂) [9]

Name Day

Norway Norway

5 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[10]
279
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 279
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[11]
19 94 2 15 17 79
Greenland Greenland[12]
14 71
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 5 0 0
n.a.
 5
Iceland Iceland[14]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
159
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 159
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Boye.


References

  1. ↑ Manno Peters Tammena: Ostfriesische Vornamen von Aafke bis Zwaantje (2007)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dr. J. van der Schaar, dr. Doreen Gerritzen: Prisma woordenboek Voornamen (2002)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gerald van Berkel, Mattie Deelstra-Boerhof, Saskia Horjus: Het nieuwste voornamen boek (2002)
  8. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  9. ↑ Olav Veka: Norsk etternamnleksikon (2001)
  10. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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