Boswell

Meanings

1. A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
2. James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
3. A place name:
4. A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).
5. A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
6. A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.
7. A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
8. A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.
9. A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

1. A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.

Etymology

Scottish surname, from Norman, named after Beuzeville, from Beuze + -ville ("Bosi's farm"); first element from Old Norse Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.