Boniface
Latin · Girl · 3 syllables
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About the name Boniface
The name 'Boniface' means "good fate" or "doer of good deeds," derived from the Latin *bonus* ("good") and *fatum* ("fate").
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Etymology
The name 'Boniface' means "good fate" or "doer of good deeds," derived from the Latin *bonus* ("good") and *fatum* ("fate"). It is primarily used in Christian cultures, notably within Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, and is historically associated with Saint Boniface, the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary known as the "Apostle of Germany."
Boniface currently ranks #1,587 in the United States as a girl's name. It reached its peak popularity around 1936.
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