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Bo
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Appendix:Variations of "bo"
English
Etymology 1
Either borrowed from modern en da Bo or en sv Bo, or a spelling variant of the male given name en Beau.
Proper noun
en male occasional since the 1970s.
en male Germanic languages
en male French Beau
en male Beauregard
en male Beaumont
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en city c/Sierra Leone.
en dist (Bo District) in p/Southern Province c/Sierra Leone Bo.
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en Bomu Gur language.
Anagrams
en bo OB Ob Ob. ob ob- ob.
Danish
Etymology
da non Búi.
Proper noun
da male
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
nl Beau
Pronunciation
nl /boː/
nl Nl-Bo.ogg
nl Bo
nl oː
Proper noun
m
nl male
Swedish
Etymology
From sv non Búi dweller, long-time resident, originally a medieval byname.
Pronunciation
sv /buː/
sv uː 1
Proper noun
c
sv male Old Norse
Related terms
pet form sv Bosse
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 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.
Vietnamese
Etymology
vi
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bo
male