Bosshard
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəshɑɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bosshard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 96K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
3,710 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
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)
Bosshard 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #134 | 3,710 | 1 in 2.3K | 3.7K | Bosshard | 77 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Bosshard | 1 |
| US United States | — | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 244 | Bosshard | 129 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 516K | — | Bosshard | 32 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 648K | 17 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 489K | — | Bosshard | 34 |
| BE Belgium | — | 24 | 1 in 488K | 24 | Bosshard | 3 |
3,710 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Heinrich Bosshardb. 1748CHSwiss geodesist
- Heinrich Bosshardb. 1811CHSwiss author (1811-1877)
- Emil Bosshardb. 1860CH(1860-1937)
- Otto Bosshardb. 1876USAmerican lawyer and politician
- Rudolf Bosshardb. 1890CHSwiss rower
- Walter Bosshardb. 1892CHSwiss photographer, teacher, explorer, botanist, botanical collector (1892-1975)
- Roy Bosierb. 1931GBnot in their usual nameSwiss actor
- Max Bosshardb. 1949CHSwiss architect
- Andres Bosshardb. 1955CHSwiss musician
- Adrian Bosshardb. 1962CHSwiss motorcycle racer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3.7K | #176 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 244 | #83,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 219 | #80,502 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 24 | #43,027 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 14 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Bosshard?
- A machine transcription gives /bəshɑɹd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bosshard have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Bosshard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bosshard.
- Where is Bosshard most common?
- Bosshard is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bosshard?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,710 people named Bosshard in 2024, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Bosshard compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Bosshard is the 134th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bosshard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bosshardThe 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, “Bosshard” — the 134th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.