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Boyer is a French surname.〔Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet. p. 62a Bouvier.〕 In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of other names. == Repartition and etymology == Boyer () is a personal name from France, found traditionally along the Mediterranean sea (Provence, Languedoc), the Rhône valley, Auvergne, Limousin, Périgord and more generally in the Southwest of France. Nevertheless, it has been existing further north since a long time. There are two variant spellings centered precisely : Boyé (southwest) and Bouyer (Loire-Atlantique, Charente-Maritime).〔Repartition of the surname ''Boyer'' in France according to the number of births (Nb) and the Départements (n°) ()〕 It ranks 50th out of the most common surnames in France and 265 in Québec.〔55th according to (linternaute.com ) after the phone book et 34th according to (geopatronyme.com ) between 1891 and 1990〕 Like many other surnames, it used to be a nickname describing somebody's job in that case : "bullock driver", "cowherd", that is to say ''Bouvier'' in common French.〔Dauzat 62a〕〔Marie-Thérèse Morlet, ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille'', Perrin 1997, article Bouvier, p.134 ; ISBN 2-262-01350-0〕 It derives mainly from the Occitan ''buòu'' « ox », with the suffix ''-iar / -ier'', frenchified phonetically or, further north, sometimes from a variant form in dialectal French ''bô, bou'' "ox" corresponding to common French ''bœuf'' with the suffix ''-ier''. In French, the modern spelling ''-oyer'' () avoids the confusion between ''-oi-er'' () and ''-oier'' (). In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of several other names : # In England, may come from bowyer, meaning "bow maker" or "bow seller." 〔http://www.ancestry.com.au/facts/Boyer-places-origin.ashx -- English variant〕 # In Turkish, the name may come from "boy-er", "boy" meaning "size" or "stature" and "er" meaning "man" or "soldier." # It can also be a corruption or deliberate alteration of several German names like Bayer or Bauer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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