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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan and southern French : from Catalan and Occitan bou ‘ox’ (from Latin bos, genitive bovis), probably a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman.
  • Cambodian or other Southeast Asian : unexplained.

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