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English
Etymology 1
Either borrowed from modern Danish Bo or Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of the male given name Beau.
Proper noun
Bo
- A male given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use since the 1970s.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Bo
- A city in Sierra Leone.
Etymology 3
Proper noun
Bo
- Synonym of Bomu (“Gur language”)
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Old Norse Búi.
Proper noun
Bo
- a male given name
References
- Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 23 931 males with the given name Bo have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bo m
- a male given name
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse Búi (“dweller, long-time resident”), originally a medieval byname.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bo c (genitive Bos)
- a male given name
Related terms
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 90 158 males with the given name Bo living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.