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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Böge) : variant of the personal name Böe (see Boe 5).
  • North German (Böge) : from Middle Low German boge ‘flexible’, ‘supple’ or ‘arch’, ‘curve’, ‘bow’, hence a nickname for a lithe person or a topographic name for someone who lived by the bend in a river, road, or field.

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