Bóas

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Usage

Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Icelandic and Faroese variant form of Boas [1]

Related Names

See Boas

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bóasarson Faroe Islands Iceland
Bóasson Faroe Islands

Female

Bóasardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland
Bóasdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Bóas
Accusative: Bóas
Dative: Bóasi
Genitive: Bóasar/Bóas
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Bóas
Accusative: Bóas
Dative: Bóasi
Genitive: Bóasar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Iceland: In the census of 1801 (Eyjarfjarðarsýsla) [4]

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Iceland Iceland[5]
48 71
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[6]
2 4 0 0 2 4
Denmark Denmark[7]
2
n.a.
0
n.a.
2
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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 Bóas.


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  3. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  4. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  5. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/