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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Böhner) : occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German bönen ‘to board’, ‘to lay a floor’
  • North German (Böhner) : topographic name for someone who lived in a loft, a variant of Boehne + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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