Boyko (name)
Boyko or Boiko (
Cyrillic: Бойко, Polish: Bojko) is one of the most common surnames in Ukraine, which is also widespread in countries such as Russia, Canada, United States and other lands with a history of immigration from Ukraine
.
It is also found in South Slavic countries, as a form of the name Бојан/Bojan (Boyan). The surname Boiko is also common amongst
highlanders tribe.[2]
It may also be a masculine given name in Bulgaria.
People
Surname
- Aleksandra Boiko (1918–1996), Soviet tank commander
- Andriy Boyko (born 1981), Ukrainian footballer
- Bohdan Boyko (born 1954), Ukrainian politician
- Brett Boyko (born 1992), Canadian football player
- Christopher A. Boyko (born 1954), American lawyer
- Darren Boyko (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player
- Denys Boyko (born 1988), Ukrainian footballer
- Dmytro Boyko (born 1981), Ukrainian footballer
- Dmytro Boiko (born 1986), Ukrainian fencer
- Edgar Paul Boyko (1918–2002), American lawyer
- Eugene Boyko (1923–2003), Canadian film maker
- Georgi Boyko (1933–2002), Soviet and Ukrainian geologist
- Ivan Boyko (1910–1975), Soviet hero
- Natalya Boyko (born 1946), Soviet canoeist
- Oleg Boyko (born 1964), Russian oligarch
- Sergei Boyko (born 1971), Russian footballer
- Svetlana Boyko (born 1972), Russian fencer
- Vadzim Boyka, also Vadim Boyko (born 1978), Belarusian footballer
- Vitaliy Boyko (born 1997), Ukrainian footballer
- Volodymyr Boyko (1938–2015), Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician
- Yuriy Boyko (born 1958), Ukrainian politician
Given name
- Boyko Aleksiev (born 1963), Bulgarian figure skater
- Boyko Borisov (born 1959), Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Boyko Kamenov (born 1975), Bulgarian football manager and player
- Boyko Rashkov (born 1954), Bulgarian lawyer, state official and politician
- Boyko Vasilev (born 1970), Bulgarian journalist
- Boyko Velichkov (born 1974), Bulgarian footballer
- Boiko Zvetanov (born 1955), Bulgarian opera singer
See also
- All pages with titles containing Boyko
- All pages with titles containing Boiko
- All pages with titles containing Bojko
- Ukrainian surnames
- Boyko, a group of Ukrainian Carpathian people
References
- ^ Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary, By Heinrich Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer, Eva H. Guggenheimer, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1992, 116
- ISBN 5-271-00127-X.
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