Bo (given name)
Bo is a given name of Norse and Chinese origin.
Background
The Norse roots of Bo are in the Scandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian, Swedish. It is associated with the present-day Scandinavian word 'bo', meaning "live", as in exist/living, and reside/nest. Bo is also short for names such as Beaufort, Beauregard, Bonita, Bonnie, Robert, or James.The Chinese given name Bo can be spelled as Bō. The meaning can be 波 "wave" and other meanings depending on the Chinese characters used. It is also a common Chinese surname.
People with the name
Notable people with the name include:Given name
- Bo Anderson, birth name of American Brazilian DJ and producer Maga Bo
- Bo Bergman, Swedish poet
- Bo Bichette, Major League Baseball player
- Bo Boustedt, Swedish Army lieutenant general
- Bo Bowling, American football player
- Bo Bragason, English actress
- Bo Brinkman, American actor, director, and producer
- Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author
- Bo Danske, 13th-century Danish philosopher
- Bo Ehnbom, Swedish military engineer
- Bo Ericson (athlete), Swedish hammer thrower
- Bo Goldman, American writer, Broadway playwright, and screenwriter
- Bo Gunge, Danish composer
- Bo Hamburger, Danish cyclist
- Bo Hansson, Swedish musician
- Bo Holmberg, Swedish politician
- Bo Järnstedt, Swedish diplomat
- Bo Johansson, Swedish former football player and current football coach
- Bo Larsson, Swedish football midfielder/striker
- Bo Ljungberg, Swedish pole vaulter
- Bo Melton, American football player
- Bo Levi Mitchell, Canadian football quarterback
- Bo Mossberg, Swedish author and illustrator of Den nya nordiska floran
- Bo Nickal, American wrestler and mixed martial artist
- Bo Nix, American football quarterback
- Bo Persson (table tennis), Swedish table tennis player
- Bo Petersson,, Swedish football manager and former football player
- Bo Randall, American knifemaker
- Bo Johan Renck, Swedish director of music videos, TV and film
- Bo Richter, American football player
- Bo Rybeck, Swedish physician
- Bo Scarbrough, American football player
- Bo Svenson, Swedish-born American actor
- Bo Svensson, Danish football player
- Bo Toresson, Swedish politician
- Bo Varenius, Swedish major general
- Bo Vestergaard, Danish lightweight rower
- Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director
- Htun Aeindra Bo, Burmese actress and singer born Mi Mi Khine in 1966
Nickname
- Bo Belinsky, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Bo Bice, American singer who placed second on the fourth season of American Idol
- Bo Bruce, English singer-songwriter
- Gudmundur S. "Bo" Bodvarsson, Icelandic hydrogeologist
- Bo Bolinger, American football player
- Jérôme Napoléon "Bo" Bonaparte, American farmer, son of Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme and Elizabeth Patterson
- Bo Brown, American cartoonist
- Bo Burnham, American singer songwriter/comedian
- Bo Burris, American National Football League player
- Bo Callaway, American politician and businessman
- Bo Cornell, American National Football League player
- Israel "Bo" Curtis, African-American educator and politician
- Bo Derek, American actress
- Bo Diddley, American R&B and Chicago blues musician
- Bo Dupp, a ring name, along with Otto Schwanz, of American professional wrestler William Happer
- Bo Goldman, American writer, Broadway playwright, and screenwriter
- Bo Gritz, American former US Army officer and perennial candidate
- Bo Halldórsson, Icelandic pop singer
- Bo Hines, American football player and politician
- Bo Hopkins, American actor
- Bo Horvat, Canadian hockey player
- Bo Jackson, American National Football League and Major League Baseball player
- Bo Kimble, American basketball player
- Bo Lamar, American basketball player
- Bo McCalebb, American-Macedonian professional basketball player
- Bo Mitchell, representative in the Tennessee House of Representatives
- Bo Outlaw, American National Basketball Association player
- Bo Pelini, American college football head coach
- Bo Rein, American, football player, baseball player, and football coach
- Bo Roberson, American, track and field athlete, and football player
- Bo Robinson, American National Football League player
- Bo Ryan, American college basketball coach and former player
- Bo Schembechler, American football player, college head coach and administrator
- Bo Snerdley, pseudonym of James Golden (radio personality)
- Bo Songvisava, Thai chef
- Bo Welch, American production designer, art director, film and TV director, actor
Chinese given name Bō
- Chu Bo, Chinese politician
- Hu Bo, Chinese film director
- Qiu Bo, Chinese diver
- Sun Bo, Chinese business executive and engineer
Fictional characters
- Bo Adams, main character in the Believe TV series
- Bo Abobo from the video game Double Dragon
- Bo, a character from the video game Brawl Stars
- Bo Brady, in the soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Bo Buchanan, in the soap opera One Life to Live
- Bo Callahan, main draft prospect in the movie Draft Day
- Bo Cocky, the main protagonist in the 2006 film Supertwink
- Bo (Lost Girl), protagonist of the Canadian TV series Lost Girl
- Bo Duke, one of the main characters in The Dukes of Hazzard TV series
- Bo Monkey, a main character in the Nickelodeon TV series Fresh Beat Band of Spies
- Bo Orlov, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
- Little Bo Peep, from a nursery rhyme
- *Bo Peep, in the Toy Story franchise
- Bo' Rai Cho, in the Mortal Kombat video game series
- Bo Sheep, in the U.S. Acres comic strip
- Bo Sinclair, in the 2005 film House of Wax
- Bo, a cheetah from the British animated TV series Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
- Bo, a cartoon character in Muse magazine
- Bo, an orphan named "Boniface" in the Cornelia Funke novel The Thief Lord
- Bo, the main protagonist of the 2017 animated film The Star
- Bo Hess from the movie Signs
- Bo, the main protagonist in the animated TV show ''Bo on the Go!''