Origin and popularity of the name BOU

Origin

Bou : 1: Catalan and southern French: from Catalan and Occitan bou ‘ox’ (from Latin bos genitive bovis) probably a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman. Compare Bove.2: Arabic (mainly Lebanon Maghreb): vernacular dialect variant of Abou in which the initial short vowel is dropped. This surname is found among both Muslims and Christians.3: Cambodian: written ប៊ូ unexplained.

Bau : 1: German: metonymic occupational name from Old High German bū Middle High German bū bou ‘cultivation of fields’ or topographic name for someone in a conspicuous building Middle High German bū bou.2: Italian (Veneto; also Baù): of German or ancient Germanic origin (see 1 above and 3 below).3: French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Bavo. Alternatively (at least and Alsace and Lorraine) a surname of German origin (see 1 above). Compare Lebeau 2.4: Chinese: variant of Bao 1-4.

Beu : North German:: 1: variant of Boye.2: topographic name for someone who lived in a place surrounded by water Low German böu Middle Low German buge bü boy.

Queripel : believed to be a nickname for a cantankerous or uncooperative person. It is apparently from a Norman French expression involving carrue ‘plough’ (noun or the stem of the verb; modern Guernsey French tchéruaï ‘to plough’) + pé (earlier pel) ‘fur’. The exact import of the expression ‘plough fur’ is not clear but some sense of what it might mean is offered by the Jersey French expression touônner à r'bours-pé ‘to plough against the (nap of the) fur’ applied to mean ‘to plough the first furrow working in the opposite direction to what is needed for the rest of the task’. The modern form of the Guernsey name with Qu- reflects a pronunciation with /k-/ derived from continuing use of the spelling in older documents.

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