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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a derivative of the Germanic personal name Bovo, from bōv(o) ‘boy’.
  • Swedish (Bovén) : probably a topographic name from bo ‘farm’ + the adjectival suffix -(v)én, a derivative of Latin -enius.

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