Boysen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘Son of Boje or Bohe’, Scandinavian and North German male personal names related to Old English Boia
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɔɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boysen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 4.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 163K
- NONorway1 in 32K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘Son of Boje or Bohe’, Scandinavian and North German male personal names related to Old English Boia.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Boysen is read(measured from records)
Boysen is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English62%
‘Son of Boje or Bohe’, Scandinavian and North German male personal names related to Old English Boia.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German16%
Patronym zum fries. und nd. Rufnamen Boio; 837+64 Belege. Etymologie des Rufnamens unsicher.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- Danish9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Boysen in Danish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boysen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Boysen | 2 |
| US United States | — | 2,043 | 1 in 163K | 2K | Boysen | 239 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Boysen | 1 |
| DK Denmark | #301 | 1,438 | 1 in 4.1K | 1.4K | Boysen | 93 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Boysen | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 172 | 1 in 32K | 172 | Boysen | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 145 | 1 in 70K | 145 | Boysen | 18 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Boysen | 2 |
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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harro Schulze-Boysenb. 1909DEGerman officer, commentator, and German Resistance fighter (1909–1942)
- Libertas Schulze-Boysenb. 1913DEGerman opponent of the Nazis who belonged to the Red Orchestra (1913-1942)
- Rolf Boysenb. 1920DEGerman actor and voice actor (1920–2014)
- Audun Boysenb. 1929NOathletics competitor (1929–2000)
- Sarah Boysenb. 1949USAmerican psychologist
- Markus Boysenb. 1954DEGerman actor
- Lia Boysenb. 1966SEactress
- Cornelia Boysenb. 1972NONorwegian film producer
- Oliver Boysenb. 1972DEGerman actor
- David Boysenb. 1991DKDanish footballer (born 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,917 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,631 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.4K | #271 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 172 | #9,260 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 145 | #5,390 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Boysen mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Son of Boje or Bohe’, Scandinavian and North German male personal names related to Old English Boia. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Boysen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɔɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boysen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Boysen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boysen.
- Where is Boysen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boysen is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boysen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,043 people named Boysen in 2010, about 1 in 163 thousand residents.
- How common is Boysen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Boysen is the 301st most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boysenThe 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, “Boysen” — the 301st most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.