American Family Name Origins:
O'Boyle
Frequency: (1311)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Baoighill ‘descendant of Baoigheall’ (see Boyle).
GIVEN NAMES: Irish 8%. Seamus, Siobhan.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
