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O'boyle Surname Meaning

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Baoighill ‘descendant of Baoigheall’ (see Boyle).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


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You can see how O'boyle families moved over time by selecting different census years. The O'boyle family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Scotland between 1851 and 1920. The most O'boyle families were found in USA in 1880. In 1880 there were 154 O'boyle families living in Pennsylvania. This was about 44% of all the recorded O'boyle's in USA. Pennsylvania had the highest population of O'boyle families in 1880.
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Between 1988 and 2004, in the United States, O'boyle life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1999, and highest in 2004. The average life expectancy for O'boyle in 1988 was 63, and 84 in 2004.

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