Boise
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Agnes Gonxha, Albanian religious
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Boise is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia.
- SASaudi Arabia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Agnes Gonxha, Albanian religious
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boise counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | Boise | 3 |
| US United States | — | 920 | — | 5 |
| FR France | — | 7 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 5 | — | — |
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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)Boise 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 English, Bojaxhiu [IVIother Teresa]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, county, ID
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Romanian, third-person singular pluperfect indicative of boi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of bas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, genitive singular of bos
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Reuben P. Boiseb. 1819USAmerican politician (1819–1907)
- Otis Bardwell Boiseb. 1844USAmerican composer and music educator (1844–1912)
- Esther Boise Van Demanb. 1862USAmerican archaeologist (1862-1937)
- Craig M. Boiseb. 1963USdean of Syracuse University Law School
- Béatrice Boiseb. 1970FRFrench politician
- Jean Boise CargillUSbotanist, mycologist and botanical collector
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 920 | #25,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 836 | #30,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 810 | #29,231 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Boise mean, and where does it come from?
- Agnes Gonxha, Albanian religious Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Boise have the most bearers?
- Boise is most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia, where it is most often spelled boise.
What do you want to know about Boise?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boiseThe 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, “Boise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.