Boser

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Wohl zu mhd. bōse 'böse'; in Südwestdeutschland auch Herkunftsname zu Boos

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

Boser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 121K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 321K
  • FIFinland≈1 in 111K

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 Boser 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.

United States (measured from records)

1,035 people, 2010

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Böser in DE Germany and Boeser in NL Netherlands.

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)

recorded in German

Wohl zu mhd. bōse 'böse'; in Südwestdeutschland auch Herkunftsname zu Boos. Bearer count: 131.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Boser 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 Boser is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0351 in 321K1KBoser166
DE Germany≈660 est.≈1 in 121K—Böser59
CA Canada≈210 est.≈1 in 177K—Boser73
NL Netherlands208as Boeser1 in 83K208Boeser20
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 635K—Boser23
FI Finland≈50 est.≈1 in 111K—Boser1
IE Ireland≈32 est.≈1 in 162K—Boser1

1,035 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Boser is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cuba, Chile, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Böser, Boşer

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Böser

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Böser

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Böser

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Böser

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kuwait

    Also written Böser

28 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)

Boser 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of bose

    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)

18001850190019502000Friedrich Boser, b. 1809Peter Boser, b. 1942Sandra Boser, b. 1976Tanner Boser, b. 1991

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 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Boser
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000962#24,386
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020944#27,108
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Boser mean?
Recorded meaning: Wohl zu mhd. bōse 'böse'; in Südwestdeutschland auch Herkunftsname zu Boos.
What are other forms of the name Boser?
In the etymology graph, Bose is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Boser have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Boser, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boser.
How common is the name Boser?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,035 people named Boser in 2010, about 1 in 321 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, “Boser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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