as a Last Name
- 30,730
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Boggs
Meaning & Origins
English: nickname from Middle English boggish ‘boastful’, ‘haughty’ (a word of unknown origin, perhaps akin to Germanic bag and bug, with the literal meaning ‘swollen’, ‘puffed up’). The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
| 1,143rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 30,730
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Boggs per capita
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