Bossan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: de Bosso com sufixo truncado -an

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

/bɔsan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 821K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.9M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

258 people

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 821K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

de Bosso com sufixo truncado -an

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bossan 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 Bossan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2581 in 821K258Bossan38
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4——
US United States——listedBossan4
UY Uruguay———Bossan2
ES Spain———Bossan5

258 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Bossan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkmen given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Turkmenistan, Nigeria, Germany, United States

    Languages: Turkmen, English, Russian

    Also written Boşşan, Боссан, Boßan

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria

    Also written Boşşan

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Boşşan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Boşşan

26 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)

Bossan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Breton, bosser, boutonner, embosser, faire une bosse, mettre en tas (le goémon)

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

  • In Breton, abattre (des animaux)

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

1800185019001950Pierre Bossan, b. 1814Paul Bossan, b. 1925Marie-Josèphe Bossan, b. 1950

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Bossan, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Bossan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—258#29,873
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#113,643
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Bossan mean, and where does it come from?
de Bosso com sufixo truncado -an Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Bossan?
A machine transcription gives /bɔsan/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Bossan have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 258 people named Bossan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bossan.
Where is Bossan most common?
Bossan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 821 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bossan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 258 people named Bossan, about 1 in 821 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, “Bossan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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