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The bobo Surname

bobo Name Meaning and History

Altered form of a French (Huguenot) name, probably Bobeaux, which is unexplained.
Spanish: nickname for a sufferer from a speech defect, from Spanish bobo ‘stammering’ (Latin balbus).
Hungarian (Bobó): from the old secular personal name Bobó.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of bobo Families in the US in 1920

Number of bobo families

66-129

23-65

1-22

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Thread	Author	Replies
Arthur Lee Bobo Baby Book 1926	Don Perryman	2
BOBO AFRICAN AMERICAN	jaymichi	0
BOBO'S OF SOUTH CAROLINA - ALABAMA	DOT SHADDIX	23
BoBo/Skelton/Williamson	Marlinda Passmore	4
Bobo	babybreath1	0
Nancy Bobo	Ray Austin	3
BOBO John H and Savannah L	t42MountOlivet	0
BOBO Patricia Ann 1952-1956	t42MountOlivet	0
BOBO Foster T 1920-1984	t42MountOlivet	0
BOBO Helen Louise 1921-1988	t42MountOlivet	0

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