Bossen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dative plural of Boss
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɑsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bossen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 7.9K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 64K
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 Bossen 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
742 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boessen in NL Netherlands, BB Barbados, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
dative plural of Boss
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bossen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 742 | 1 in 7.9K | 742 | Bossen | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Boessen | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Bossen | 1 |
| US United States | — | 324 | 1 in 1M | 324 | Bossen | 142 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Bossen | 54 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 235as Boessen | 1 in 74K | 235 | Boessen | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 69 | 1 in 148K | 69 | Bossen | 11 |
| BB Barbados | #501 | — | — | — | Boessen | 1 |
742 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Bossen 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 Swedish, definite singular of boss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, plural 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)
- Peter Bossenb. 1866DEGerman politician (1866-1958)
- Ruud Bossenb. 1962NLDutch association football referee
- Anne Christine Bossenb. 2003DKDanish handball player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 742 | #545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 324 | #61,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 297 | #70,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 292 | #63,812 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 117 | #16,769 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 69 | #9,703 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Bossen mean, and where does it come from?
- dative plural of Boss Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bossen?
- In the etymology graph, BuTt is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bossen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bossen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 742 people named Bossen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bossen.
- Where is Bossen most common?
- Bossen is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bossen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 742 people named Bossen, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Bossen compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Bossen is the 501st most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bossen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bossenThe 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, “Bossen” — the 501st most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.