Boese
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Boese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,715 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CACanada≈1 in 80Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 123K
- DKDenmark1 in 183K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
2,715 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Boese is found
(measured from records)Boese 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,715 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Boese | 231 |
| CA Canada | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Boese | 72 |
| BR Brazil | 391 | 1 in 541K | 391 | Boese | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 274K | — | Boese | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Boese | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Boese | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Boese | 19 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Boese | 1 |
2,715 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). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Carl Boeseb. 1887DEGerman film director (1887–1958)
- Ursula Boeseb. 1928DEGerman operatic contralto (1928–2016)
- Kristin Boeseb. 1977DEGerman kitesurfer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Boese?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Boese, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boese. After it come Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Boese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,715 people named Boese in 2010, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boese?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boeseThe 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, “Boese” — ranked 10757th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.