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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant of Boone.
  • Norwegian (Bøen) : habitational name from a common farm name Bøen ‘The Farm’, from ‘farm’ or ‘meadow’ (Old Norse býr) + the definite article -en.
  • Respelling of Swedish Böen, cognate with 2.

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