Boies
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Voir Bois
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɔɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boies is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 809K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 809K (inferred from the name graph)
411 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Voir Bois.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boies 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 411 | 1 in 809K | 827 | Boies | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Boies | 53 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Boies | 8 |
| IN India | — | — | 3 | — | — |
411 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Boies is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person singular present subjunctive of boiar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, second-person singular present indicative 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)
- Horace Boiesb. 1827USAmerican politician (1827-1923)
- John Keep Boiesb. 1828USAmerican politician
- William D. Boiesb. 1857USAmerican politician (1857-1932)
- Edna Boies Hopkinsb. 1872USAmerican artist (1872 — 1937)
- Bessie Boies Cottonb. 1880USAmerican YWCA staff member
- David Boiesb. 1941USAmerican lawyer and chairman
- Mary Boiesb. 1950USAmerican businesswoman
- Markita Boiesb. 1954CACanadian actress
- Mary Regency BoiesUSAmerican actress and producer
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 827 | #30,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 515 | #40,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 411 | #50,771 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #26,865 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boies mean, and where does it come from?
- Voir Bois. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- How do you pronounce Boies?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɔɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boies have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 411 people named Boies, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boies.
- Where is Boies most common?
- Boies is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 809 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Boies?
- In the United States, the national register counted 411 people named Boies in 2010, about 1 in 809 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boiesThe 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, “Boies”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.