Boozer

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Boozer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: perhaps 'dweller in the place planted with bushes', from French bussière; first attested Robert de Burser 1285 Ess.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 79K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,208 people, 2010

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

perhaps 'dweller in the place planted with bushes', from French bussière; first attested Robert de Burser 1285 Ess

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Boozer 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.

Where Boozer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,2081 in 79K4.2KBoozer8
IT Italy———Boozer1
GB United Kingdom——listed—1

4,208 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; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 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)

Boozer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.

    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)

192019401960198020002020Bob Boozer, b. 1937John Boozer, b. 1938Emerson Boozer, b. 1943Allen Boozer, b. 1944Mel Boozer, b. 1945Young Boozer, b. 1948Carlos Boozer, b. 1981Cole Boozer, b. 1994Cameron Boozer, b. 2007

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 7 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Boozer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.2K#7,866
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.1K#7,502
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204K#7,949
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Boozer mean, and where does it come from?
perhaps 'dweller in the place planted with bushes', from French bussière; first attested Robert de Burser 1285 Ess Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Boozer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Boozer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boozer.
Where is Boozer most common?
Boozer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Boozer?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,208 people named Boozer in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.

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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, “Boozer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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