Frequency: (411)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Jewish, English, and Scottish: from the Biblical personal name Boas or Boaz. In 18th-century Britain this surname was found as far apart as St. Ives in Cornwall and Dundee in Scotland.
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