BoSan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

BoSan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 190K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 410K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 702K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 190K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

BoSan 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 BoSan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈1,200 est.≈1 in 190K2BoSan14
NG Nigeria≈520 est.≈1 in 410K—BoSan13
IN India≈130 est.≈1 in 10M42BoSan3
BR Brazil681 in 3.1M68——
US United States≈63 est.≈1 in 5.3M—BoSan71
MY Malaysia≈47 est.≈1 in 702K—BoSan5

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

BoSan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Boşan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bošan

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, United States

    Also written Boşan

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Bošan

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Turkmenistan

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen

    Also written Boşan

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

BoSan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, bored (impatient or dissatisfied because one lacks interest in one's current activity)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of bosar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, accusative/genitive/dative singular of Bōsa

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

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

In which country does BoSan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named BoSan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled BoSan.
How common is the name BoSan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 68 people named BoSan, about 1 in 3.1 million 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, “BoSan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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