Boe Family History

Norwegian (Bøe): topographic name from an early variant of Old Norse býr ‘farm’. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Bø (see Bo). Danish: from Bo, a derivative of the Nordic personal name Bui ‘settled farmer’ (Old Norse u is pronounced o) derived from bu ‘to live in a place’.

Swedish (Böe): of Norwegian origin (see 1 above). Dutch and North German: shortened form of Bode originally pronounced as two syllables. Scottish: from a much shortened Scots form of Bullock perhaps influenced by Gaelic bò ‘cow’.

English: variant of Bow. Irish: possibly from Ó Buadhaigh ‘descendant of the victorious one’ see Bogue and Bow.