Boggs Family History
Boggs Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English boggish ‘boastful’,
‘haughty’ (a word of unknown origin, perhaps akin to Germanic
bag and bug, with the literal meaning ‘swollen’, ‘puffed
up’). The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is
found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also
around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Boggs Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boggs families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boggs families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boggs Family Origin
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Boggs Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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