Bogle
Likely a nickname surname linked to a “bogey” or spectre-like figure, though older writers also connected it with a diminutive personal name.
The #5,897 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 52,768 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The surname is generally associated with Scots and northern English dialect words for a goblin, bogey, or spectre. That makes it most plausibly a nickname for someone thought uncanny, sly, or odd in appearance or manner. Some 19th-century etymologists also suggested a connection with older diminutive forms such as an Anglo-Saxon or medieval personal name, but that explanation is less secure.
History
Bogle appears in historical surname collections and place-name material from Britain, especially in Scotland and the north of England. The name is also familiar through later literary and cultural uses, which helped keep the word alive as a term for a phantom or bogeyman. In modern English-speaking countries it survives as a relatively uncommon surname.
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Fun fact
The word bogle is still used in Scots English to mean a ghostly or frightening figure, which matches the surname’s old nickname sense.
From the historical record
“"We have Angel, (what a misnomer for a lawyer! unless derived from the coin, when it becomes appropriate) ; Bogle, a spectre ; Geist, the German for spirit ; Soul, Fay, and Mabb ; also Warloch. We have also Engal and Engals, from the German for "angel." Mr. Puck lives in New York. ]\Ir. Wand, of that citj^, deals…”
— Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom