Böz

surname · Latin script

Böz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 54K
  • BEBelgium1 in 75K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈46,000 people, est.

Record sources
94 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boz in TR Türkiye, BE Belgium, CH Switzerland and 3 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 Romanian

subst. (bozie, boziu) plants, cf. si sl. Rosa plural < son zeu". 1. Boz, -ea (Dm). 2. Boza b. (Mar ; Buc) ; spatar (RI XV 162). 3. Bozan, Ion. 4. Bozie b. (Stef) ; Boziu b. (16 B V 208) ; - P. stapin pe satul Bozianii 1537 mold (C Raz 9) ; Bozi /eni, -oru ss. 5. Bozicq b. (Ard). 6. Bozau, T. (Isp MI). 7. Bozoc t. (Cat mold II). 8. Bozolea 1610 (Cat mold I). 9. Cf. Bozum, D. (17 A V 371). Bozga v. Bogz a 3. Bozgan v. B azg a 5. Brabiinul v. Br ea b an 2.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Böz 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 Böz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#236≈46,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Boz94
BR Brazil—6551 in 323K655——
FR France—≈540 est.≈1 in 126K65Boz3
SY Syria—≈510 est.≈1 in 48K1Boz5
BE Belgium—1571 in 75K209Boz18
CH Switzerland—1561 in 54K156Boz14
AZ Azerbaijan—≈140 est.≈1 in 72K—Boz4

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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Böz is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Boz, Боз, Bož, Бож, Bozh

  • German surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Türkiye

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Boz, Boez, Bozh, Boe͏̈z

  • Burmese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Boz

  • Arabic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Türkiye, Egypt, Morocco

    Also written Boz, Böż, Bôz

  • Portuguese surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Türkiye, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Boz, Bozh, Bóz, Bož

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)

Böz 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 slr, cotton-stuff, cloth, material

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Böz under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Böz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Böz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boz.
How common is the name Böz?
In Brazil, the national register counted 655 people named Böz, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
How common is Böz compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Böz is the 236th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Böz” — the 236th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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