Boz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: grizzle
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/boz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 42K
- SYSyria≈1 in 42K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
grizzle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #236 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Boz | 94 |
| BR Brazil | — | 655 | 1 in 323K | 655 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 65 | Boz | 3 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | Boz | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Boz | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 157 | 1 in 75K | 209 | Boz | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 156 | 1 in 54K | 156 | Boz | 14 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Boz is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Toprak rengi. 2. Yiğit. 3. Kin, düşmanlık.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Italian, forma vêneta reduzida de Bozzo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, pen name of C. Dickens
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Russian, var of Bozh.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Basque, voice
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)
- Lucian Bozb. 1908RORomanian journalist (1908-2003)
- Murat Bozb. 1980TRTurkish singer (born 1980)
- Müge Bozb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- Meryem Bozb. 1988TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1988)
- Mahmut Bozb. 1991TRTurkish association football player (born 1991)
- Müjdat Bozb. 1992TRTurkish biathlete (born 1992)
- Alina Bozb. 1998TRTurkish actor (born 1998)
- Berat Bozb. 1998TRTurkish association football player (born 1998)
- Beril BozTRTurkish actor
- Beril BozTRTurkish jurist
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 655 | #13,353 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 209 | #8,601 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 157 | #10,534 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 156 | #7,714 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Boz mean, and where does it come from?
- grizzle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Boz?
- A machine transcription gives /boz/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Boz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Boz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boz.
- How common is the name Boz?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 655 people named Boz, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
- How common is Boz compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Boz is the 236th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bozThe 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, “Boz” — the 236th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.