Boay Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 1
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Boay Surname Statistics


Most Frequent Forenames for Boay

Name Census Frequency
James Boay 7
John Boay 6
Ann Boay 5
Elizabeth Boay 5
Herbert Boay 5
Jane Boay 5
Mary Boay 5
Thomas Boay 5
Robert Boay 4
Edward Boay 3
Emma Boay 3
Frank Boay 3
Margaret Boay 3
Alice Boay 2
Constance Boay 2
Ellen Boay 2
Fanny Boay 2
Grace Boay 2
Louisa Boay 2
Mabel Boay 2
Minnie Boay 2
Sarah Boay 2
Selina Boay 2
William Boay 2
Ada Boay 1

Boay Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bye 25% 11,887
2 Bay 75% 3,147
3 Boyee 40% 2,559
4 Abey 25% 895
5 Booy 75% 877
6 Boy 75% 844
7 Obey 25% 702
8 Boye 50% 444
9 Buy 50% 436
10 Eaby 25% 410
11 Baye 50% 264
12 Beay 75% 240
13 Bey 50% 195
14 Aby 25% 168
15 Aubey 20% 150
16 Boay 100% 128
17 Eby 25% 104
18 Bayee 40% 102

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The surname Boay is the 16th most popular variant of Bye.

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