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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire (now Boothby Graffoe and Boothby Pagnell), recorded in Domesday Book as Bodebi, from Old Danish bōth ‘hut’, ‘shed’ + ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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