Bösche
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zu Sebastian; 607+46 Träger
Bösche is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- FRFrance≈1 in 376K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bösche itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boesche in GT Guatemala, ZA South Africa, NZ New Zealand and Bosche in US United States.
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)
Patronym zu Sebastian; 607+46 Träger
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bösche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Bösche | 56 |
| US United States | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 237 | Bosche | 136 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 376K | 34 | — | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Boesche | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 446K | — | Boesche | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Boesche | 1 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jürgen W. Böscheb. 1928DEGerman jurist
- Ernst-Dieter Böscheb. 1942DEGerman politician
- Burchard Böscheb. 1946DEGerman lawyer
- Susanne BöscheDanish Illustrated Book Author for Children
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 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
- What does the name Bösche mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronym zu Sebastian; 607+46 Träger Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen.
- In which country does Bösche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Bösche in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bösche.
- How common is the name Bösche?
- In the United States, the national register counted 237 people named Bösche in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/b%C3%B6scheThe 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, “Bösche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.