Boyd Family History
Boyd Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the island of Bute in the Firth of
Clyde, the Gaelic name of which is Bód (genitive
Bóid).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Boyd
Name Distribution of Boyd Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boyd families
 544 - 1,086  182 - 543 |
 1 - 181  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boyd families
|
1,245 - 2,488 416 - 1,244 |
1 - 415 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boyd Family Origin
Boyd Emigration Information (US)
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Boyd Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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