Boese
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈboʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 123K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 79K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 131K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, 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 in the world(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Boese | 2 |
| US United States | 2,715 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Boese | 231 |
| CA Canada | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Boese | 72 |
| BR Brazil | 391 | 1 in 541K | 391 | Boese | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Boese | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Boese | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Boese | 19 |
| DK Denmark | 32 | 1 in 183K | 32 | Boese | 16 |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Rudolf Boeseb. 1839DEGerman politician (1839-1912)
- Johannes Boeseb. 1856PLGerman sculptor (1856–1917)
- Gustav Boeseb. 1878PLGerman painter (1878-1943)
- Carl Boeseb. 1887DEGerman film director (1887–1958)
- Carl-Heinz Boeseb. 1892DEGerman film director (1892–1941)
- Helmut Boeseb. 1911ATAustrian librarian (1911-1983)
- Ursula Boeseb. 1928DEGerman operatic contralto (1928–2016)
- Johannes Boeseb. 1939DEGerman archaeologist (1939-2012)
- Pedro Boeseb. 1972PTGerman-Portuguese abstract painter
- 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)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,578 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,069 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 391 | #21,148 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 32 | #15,597 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Boese?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Boese in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boese.
- 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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.