Bošs
surname · Latin script
Bošs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bosse, bouton (de peau), nœud (d’arbre).
- NGNigeria≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 39K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boss in US United States, EG Egypt, CH Switzerland and 5 more.
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)
bosse, bouton (de peau), nœud (d’arbre)
Sources 4
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bošs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Boss | 36 |
| US United States | — | 8,529 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Boss | 398 |
| DZ Algeria | #284 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Boss | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Boss | 29 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Boss | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | #854 | 1,804 | 1 in 4.7K | 1.8K | Boss | 52 |
| JM Jamaica | #337 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Boss | 9 |
| QA Qatar | #861 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Boss | 5 |
| LI Liechtenstein | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 47 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bošs mean, and where does it come from?
- bosse, bouton (de peau), nœud (d’arbre) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Bošs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Bošs in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boss.
- Where is Bošs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bošs is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bošs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,529 people named Bošs in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Bošs compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Bošs is the 284th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Bošs” — the 284th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.