Given name & surname
Boe
“farm”
Boe is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a Swedish surname, Boe goes back to a word meaning “farm.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Boe has more than one origin: as a Swedish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “farm”; as a Norwegian surname, it comes from Old Norse býr.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Boe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,101
- 1,079 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 35
- #3,318 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +7%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 35 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,318 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 4.1% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 40 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,249 as a first name in 2020; 3,806 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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