as a Last Name
- 9,262
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Box
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English, Old English box ‘box tree’ (Latin buxus), in any of a number of possible applications. It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a box thicket, a habitational name from one of the places called Box, in Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, and Wiltshire, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked box wood, which is very hard and for this reason was used to make a variety of tools. In some cases it may even have been a nickname for a person with pale or yellow skin, for example as the result of jaundice, a reference to the color of box wood.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,262
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Box per capita
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