Boie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zum fries. und nd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Boie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 74K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 180Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 480Kfew records
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 Boie 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boeie in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium.
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)Patronym zum fries. und nd. Rufnamen Boio; 170+449 Belege. Etymologie des Rufnamens unsicher.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where the surname Boie is found
(measured from records)Boie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Boie | 54 |
| US United States | 417 | 1 in 798K | 464 | Boie | 148 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 483K | — | Boie | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Boeie | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 79 | 1 in 74K | 79 | Boie | 43 |
| BE Belgium | 18 | 1 in 651K | 18 | Boeie | 5 |
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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Boie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, inflection of boiar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Friedrich Boieb. 1789DEGerman scientist
- Heinrich Boieb. 1794DEGerman zoologist (1794–1827)
- Kirsten Boieb. 1950DEGerman writer (born 1950)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zum fries. und nd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Boie?
- Mondonomo estimates about 473 people named Boie in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boie. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Boie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boie is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 417 people named Boie in 2010, about 1 in 798 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boieThe 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, “Boie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.