Bosco
loc · Latin script
Meaning: do germ. busk, 'bosque, mata, selva'; homem dos bosques, sinônimo de Boscaro
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bosko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bosco is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 3.5K
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burundi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do germ. busk, 'bosque, mata, selva'; homem dos bosques, sinônimo de Boscaro
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bosco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bosco is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Philip Michael, US actor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of boscus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, boatswain, skipper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, woodland
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Boscob. 1815ITItalian Roman Catholic priest, educator, writer (1815–1888)
- Henri Boscob. 1888FRFrench writer (1888–1976)
- Philip Boscob. 1930USAmerican actor (1930-2018)
- Bosco Lin Chi-nanb. 1943Taiwanese catholic bishop
- Bosco Hoganb. 1949IEIrish actor
- Pat McFaddenb. 1965GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1965)
- Bosco Ntagandab. 1973CDIndicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes
- Mario Boscob. 1973USAmerican actor
- Bosco Wongb. 1980CNHong Kong actor
- Lionel Boscob. 1981BEBelgian basketball player (born 1981)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 680 | #11,843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 625 | #17,521 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 319 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 319 | #18,217 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 37 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 22 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 11 | #1,977 |
| BI Burundi | CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #8 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #17,521 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 3 | #2,223 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 2 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bosco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Bosco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Bosco?
- A machine transcription gives /bosko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Bosco mean?
- Recorded meaning: do germ. busk, 'bosque, mata, selva'; homem dos bosques, sinônimo de Boscaro
- How common is the name Bosco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,498 people named Bosco in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boscoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bosco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.