Boye

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Male Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Frisian name

1a) Modern form of the Old Frisian name Bôio = 'dweller' (Old Saxon bûan and Old Frisian bōgia = 'to live, to dwell'), related to the Norse name Búi ^[1]

1b) Modern form of the Old Saxon name Boio = 'dweller' (Gothic *Bauja = 'dweller') ^{[2] [3]}

2a) Pet form of Old Frisian brōther, Old Saxon brōthar = 'brother', which is related to the English word boy ^{[2] [4] [5]}

2b) Germanic bovo = 'boy' ^[6]

3) Pet form of Old High German Bodo ^{[2] [4] [6] [3] [7] [5]}

4) Pet form of names containing the Germanic name element BAUG ^{[2] [4] [6] [5]}

5) Pet form of Boudewijn (= Frisian form of Baldewin) ^[2]

Related Names

Boi	♂
Boie	♂
Boj	♂
Boje	♂
Boy	♂
Boye	♂
Boyine	♀
Bøyine	♀

Name Day

Norway

5 October

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[8]		0	n.a.	327	n.a
Norway[9]		0	0	113	149
Sweden[10]		1	14	23	82
Finland[11]		n.a.	3	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Boye.

Sources: ^{[10] [8] [9] [11]}

References

1. ↑ Manno Peters Tammena: Ostfriesische Vornamen von Aafke bis Zwaantje (2007)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
4. ↑ Dr. J. van der Schaar, dr. Doreen Gerritzen: Prisma woordenboek Voornamen (2002)
5. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
6. ↑ Gerald van Berkel, Mattie Deelstra-Boerhof, Saskia Horjus: Het nieuwste voornamen boek (2002)
7. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi