Boy name origins & meanings
- Hebrew : Swift, strong
Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : variant of Boos. Debrabandere suggests it may also be habitational name for someone from Booze in Trembleur in the Belgian province of Liège.
- South German and Swiss German : regional (Alemannic) nickname from Middle High German boese ‘ridiculous person’, ‘low-standing servant’ or from a Germanic personal name Bozo (See Bosshart 1).