Bôs
surname · Latin script
Bôs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 18th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.
- NLNetherlands1 in 488(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 14K
- INIndia1 in 30K
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 Bôs 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- 1 in 488 (inferred from the name graph)
44,491 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bos in NL Netherlands, US United States, CH Switzerland and 2 more, Basu in IN India and Boş in FR France.
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)- Middle Dutchbosch(measured from records)
- Old Dutch*busc(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*busk(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*buskaz(measured from records)
From Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bôs is found
(measured from records)Bôs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 44,491 | 1 in 30K | 44K | Basu | 89 |
| NL Netherlands | #18 | 35,402 | 1 in 488 | 35K | Bos | 171 |
| US United States | — | 8,529as Boss | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Bos | 293 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Bos | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,846as Pas | 1 in 55K | 3.8K | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 312 | Boş | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,804as Boss | 1 in 4.7K | 1.8K | Bos | 20 |
| BE Belgium | — | 813 | 1 in 14K | 813 | Bos | 57 |
44,491 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bos. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bôs mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bôs?
- In India, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Bôs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled basu. After it come Netherlands, United States, Indonesia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bôs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bôs is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 488 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bôs?
- In India, the national register counted 44,491 people named Bôs, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Bôs compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bôs is the 18th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B4sThe 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, “Bôs” — the 18th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.