Boussa
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/busa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boussa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 98K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 186K
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 Boussa 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boussa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 2 | Boussa | 7 |
| US United States | 503as Bussa | 1 in 661K | 560 | Boussa | 15 |
| IN India | 478as Bussa | 1 in 2.8M | 478 | — | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 98K | listed | Boussa | 3 |
| FR France | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 331K | 21 | Boussa | 99 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Boussa | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | Boussa | 13 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the dz-kaggle-names 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 32 | #35,486 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Boussa?
- A machine transcription gives /busa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Boussa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Boussa in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boussa.
- How common is the name Boussa?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 32 people named Boussa in 2008, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boussa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boussaThe 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, “Boussa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.