Bosch
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: obsolete spelling of bos
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bosch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 32nd most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 3.4K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 4.4K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 361 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
14,771 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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(measured from records)
obsolete spelling of bos
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bosch is read(measured from records)
Bosch is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English38%
J. Carl, German chemist (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Hieronymus, Dutch painter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bosch in Spanish.
- German9.2%
Zu mhd. bosch(e), mnd. busch/busk ‘Busch, Gesträuch, Büschel, Gehölz, Wald’; zeigt die o-Variante zu Busch. Belegt 4778 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Wohnstättenname zu Busch/Wald; univerbierte Form. 11 Belege; zeigt niederländisch/niederdeutsche Lautform.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Schreibvariante zu Busch, mit o statt u; zeigt die Monophthongvarianz o/u. 4778 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
- Dutch9.1%
obsolete spelling of bos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bosch in French.
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)
Bosch 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 14,771 | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Bosch | 87 |
| ZA South Africa | #591 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Bosch | 85 |
| NL Netherlands | #32 | 10,940 | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Bosch | 149 |
| DE Germany | #517 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Bosch | 168 |
| US United States | — | 7,312 | 1 in 45K | 7.3K | Bosch | 361 |
| CH Switzerland | #781 | 3,329 | 1 in 2.5K | 3.3K | Bosch | 52 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 696 | 1 in 4.9K | 696 | — | 1 |
14,771 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Hieronymus Boschb. 1450NLDutch painter (c. 1450–1516)
- Robert Boschb. 1861DEGerman industrialist, inventor, engineer (1861-1942)
- Carl Boschb. 1874DEGerman chemical engineer (1874–1940)
- Juan Boschb. 1909DOFirst democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic (1909-2001)
- Orlando Boschb. 1926CUCuban terrorist anti-Castro militant; former fugitive wanted on terrorism charges
- Carles Bosch Arisób. 1952ESSpanish journalist, film director and writer
- Jordi Boschb. 1956ESSpanish actor
- Roselyne Boschb. 1961FRFrench film producer, writer and film director
- Johnny Yong Boschb. 1976USAmerican actor
- Edith Boschb. 1980NLDutch judoka
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 15K | #363 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #363 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11K | #45 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.3K | #4,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.2K | #4,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.7K | #4,807 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 696 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 360 | #3,661 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Bosch mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete spelling of bos Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bosch have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Bosch, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bosch.
- Where is Bosch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bosch is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bosch?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,771 people named Bosch, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Bosch compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Bosch is the 32nd most common surname of 284,143 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, “Bosch” — the 32nd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.