Boso
surname · Latin script
Meaning: short form, now often uncertain; probably old nickname forms rather than from böse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈboʊsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 765K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 59K
- ITItaly≈1 in 164K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
607 people
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
short form, now often uncertain; probably old nickname forms rather than from böse
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 607 | 1 in 349K | 607 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 435 | 1 in 765K | 544 | Boso | 141 |
| IT Italy | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 164K | listed | Boso | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Boso | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 185 | 1 in 246K | 185 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Boso | 10 |
| GH Ghana | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Boso | 8 |
607 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Boso is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of bosar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, provável de raiz germânica bausia/boso, 'soberbo, hostil, mau'; também pode refletir buxus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Germanico; significato originario ‘odioso, cattivo’, forse con ipotesi alternativa da radice *weis- ‘saggio, esperto’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Quasi certamente di origine germanica; etimologia incerta.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Latin, nickname meaning 'bad, evil'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Felipe Bosob. 1924ESSpanish poet (1924–1983)
- Erminio Bosob. 1945ITItalian politician
- Carlo Bosob. 1946ITItalian playwright
- Greg Bosob. 1957USWest Virginia State Senator
- Cap Bosob. 1962USAmerican football player
- José Vicente Marí Bosób. 1970ESSpanish politician
- Nathaniel BosoGBresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7043-4793
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 607 | #14,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 544 | #38,263 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 530 | #43,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 435 | #48,530 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 185 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Boso mean, and where does it come from?
- short form, now often uncertain; probably old nickname forms rather than from böse Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Boso?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boso have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 607 people named Boso, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Boso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 607 people named Boso, about 1 in 349 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bosoThe 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, “Boso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.