Böger

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Berufsname zu Wohnstätten 'am Zoll'; Karte zeigt o/ö-Vokalvariation; 1360 Belege

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bøɡɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Böger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 82K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 154K

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.

United States (measured from records)

4,051 people, 2010

Sources
296 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boger in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in German

Berufsname zu Wohnstätten 'am Zoll'; Karte zeigt o/ö-Vokalvariation; 1360 Belege.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Böger 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.

Where Böger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,0511 in 82K4.3KBoger296
DE Germany≈2,000 est.≈1 in 41K—Boger96
BR Brazil8291 in 255K829—2
EG Egypt≈490 est.≈1 in 213K—Boger6
GB United Kingdom≈430 est.≈1 in 154K—Boger30
NO Norway3021 in 18K302Boger15
LB Lebanon≈140 est.≈1 in 39K—Boger1
LY Libya≈92 est.≈1 in 75K—Boger1

4,051 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Böger is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Colombia, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Boger, Bőgér

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Boger, Boğer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Boger

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Boger

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Boger, Богер, Boğer

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Boger

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Boger

  • Sinhala surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Boger

  • Norwegian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Boger

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Böger is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Berufsname zu mhd. bogener/bogêre 'Bogenschütze, -macher'; 1360 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

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)

1850190019502000Rudolf Karl Ferdinand Böger, b. 1854Luciano Durán Böger, b. 1904Rolf Böger, b. 1908Klaus Böger, b. 1945Helmut Böger, b. 1949Stefan Böger, b. 1966Astrid Böger, b. 1967Anna Böger, b. 1977

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Böger, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Böger?
A machine transcription gives /bøɡɐ/ (IPA) for German.
What does the name Böger mean?
Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu Wohnstätten 'am Zoll'; Karte zeigt o/ö-Vokalvariation; 1360 Belege.
In which country does Böger have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Böger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boger.
Where is Böger most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Böger is densest in Norway — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Böger?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,051 people named Böger in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.

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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, “Böger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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