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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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

3 - 4

2 - 2

from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Boggs Family Origin

Ireland (19)

England (13)

Bermuda (11)

Canada (5)

Germany (2)

Great Britain (2)

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Any relations to New Mexico Boggs branch?	larryk92us	8
Hugh Boggs of SC and Iowa	frankmboggs	0
Charity Boggs (Wilson>Cunningham>Cobb)	barefootcontessa59	0
Rev. John Boggs' branch.	dtboggsm	1
James Boggs	MillyDee762	0
the john boggs who married turtle at homes daughter, I found him and the GoV	waiya	0
Obituary of David C. Boggs, Confederate Home of Missouri.	tim_weber1	1
JOHN BOGGS	lewbarbogs	0
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Still running up against a wall - WV Boggs	suerey60	0

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