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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for an archer, bögel ‘bow’, or for a maker or seller of harness equipment, from the same word in the sense ‘stirrup’, ‘ring’, or ‘yoke’.
  • German : from the short pet form (Bogo) of a Germanic personal name formed with bogo ‘bow’ as the first element.

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