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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Irish (pronounced Bow) : variant spelling of Bow.
  • English (pronounced Boff) : from a Norman form of Old French boeuf ‘bull’, ‘ox’, hence a nickname for a powerfully built man, or in some cases a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman.

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