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boys Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly Yorkshire): variant spelling of Boyce.
  2. Americanized spelling of French Bois.

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boys Family Facts

Distribution of boys Families in the US in 1920
Number of boys families
 17-31
 6-16
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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