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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle Low German boke ‘beech’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  • German : reduced form of Bödeker (see Boedeker).
  • Jewish (Israeli) : ornamental name from Hebrew boker ‘morning’.

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