Bo

Either borrowed from modern Danish Bo or Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of the male given name Beau.

Bo

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages in occasional use since the 1970s.

Bo

1. A city in Sierra Leone.

Bo

1. Synonym of Bomu (“Gur language”).

• OB, Ob, Ob., ob, ob-, ob.

Old Norse Búi.

Bo

1. a male given name

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 23 931 males with the given name Bo have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• Beau

• IPA^(key): /boː/

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• Hyphenation: Bo
• Rhymes: -oː

Bo m

1. a male given name

From Old Norse Búi (“dweller, long-time resident”), originally a medieval byname.

• IPA^(key): /buː/

Bo c (genitive Bos)

1. a male given name from Old Norse

• (pet form): Bosse

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 90 158 males with the given name Bo living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˧˧]

Bo

1. a male home name