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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place named Boyary, in Belarus, Latvia, or Lithuania.
  • Americanized spelling of Polish Bojar, a status name or nickname from bojar ‘boyar’ (a member of the old Russian aristocracy).

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