Bőe
surname · Latin script
Bőe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi.
- VUVanuatu≈1 in 680(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 18Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bőe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 682 (inferred from the name graph)
4,914 named Bø
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vanuatu, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boe in US United States, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)* As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi. * As a Dutch and German surname, reduced from Bode. * As a West Frisian surname, from the name Boye.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bőe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #687 | 4,914as Bø | 1 in 1.1K | 4.9K | Boe | 67 |
| US United States | — | 3,850 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Boe | 319 |
| FR France | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 96 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 3 | Boe | 51 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 116K | listed | Boe | 16 |
| VU Vanuatu | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 682 | 2 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | #453 | 326 | 1 in 18K | 326 | Boe | 68 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #717 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Boe | 1 |
4,914 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population), counting the spelling bø. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bőe mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Bőe have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Bø, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bőe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,850 people named Bőe in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Bőe compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bőe is the 687th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C5%91eThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bőe” — the 687th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.