Boie

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Patronym zum fries. und nd

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɔi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Boie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 798K(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 33K
  • DKDenmark1 in 74K

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈470 people, est.

Sources
148 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boeie in NL Netherlands.

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)

recorded in German

Patronym zum fries. und nd. Rufnamen Boio; 170+449 Belege. Etymologie des Rufnamens unsicher.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Where in the world(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.

Where Boie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈470 est.≈1 in 172K—Boie54
US United States4171 in 798K464Boie148
RS Serbia≈210 est.≈1 in 33K—Boie1
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 513K—Boie14
DK Denmark791 in 74K79Boie43
NL Netherlands≈58 est.≈1 in 298K—Boeie7
FI Finland≈28 est.≈1 in 198K—Boie1

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Boie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Boié

  • Bangla surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Boïe

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)

1400160018002000Nicolaus Boie, b. 1500Nikolaus Boie, b. 1501Heinrich Christian Boie, b. 1744Friedrich Boie, b. 1789Heinrich Boie, b. 1794Reinhold Boie, b. 1831Margarete Boie, b. 1880Werner Boie, b. 1913Kirsten Boie, b. 1950Johannes Boie, b. 1983

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)

FormalDear Mr Boie,
InformalHi Boie,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Boie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020464#49,062
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010417#50,196
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000366#53,047
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—79#6,901
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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

How do you pronounce Boie?
A machine transcription gives /bɔi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Boie mean?
Recorded meaning: Patronym zum fries. und nd.
In which country does Boie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 465 people named Boie in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boie.
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.

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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 2026-10-10.

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