Bosque
loc · Latin script
Meaning: grove
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bosque is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 167K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 3.4Kas Bosch
- CRCosta Rica1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bosque 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
14,771 named Bosch
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bosch in NL Netherlands, US United States.
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)
grove
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bosque 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 | 14,771as Bosch | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Bosque | 111 |
| NL Netherlands | 10,940as Bosch | 1 in 1.6K | 11K | Bosch | 5 |
| US United States | 7,312as Bosch | 1 in 45K | 7.3K | Bosch | 185 |
| AR Argentina | 2,244as Bosch | 1 in 20K | 2.2K | Bosque | 47 |
| BR Brazil | 1,264 | 1 in 167K | 1.3K | Bosque | 66 |
| BE Belgium | 1,168as Bosch | 1 in 10K | 1.2K | — | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 696as Bosch | 1 in 4.9K | 696 | — | 13 |
| CR Costa Rica | 159 | 1 in 32K | 159 | — | 15 |
14,771 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling bosch. 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Bosque 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 Portuguese, grove (set of trees, shrubs and other plants, generally smaller than a forest)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ciudad de Mexico
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, county, TX
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Rare spelling of bosk.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, forest
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)
- Juan de Dios Bosqueb. 1829BOBolivian politician
- Pío Romero Bosqueb. 1860SVPresident of El Salvador (1860-1935)
- Jorge Pérez del Bosqueb. 1920ESSpanish physician (1920-1999)
- Joaquín Bosque Maurelb. 1924ESSpanish geographer
- Maria A. Bosqueb. 1924PHbadminton player
- Juan Almeida Bosqueb. 1927CUCuban politician and one of the original commanders of the Cuban Revolution (1927-2009)
- Tomás Bosqueb. 1948ESSpanish singer-songwriter
- Ignacio Bosqueb. 1951ESSpanish linguist
- Xavier Bosque Ortegab. 1966ESchess player
- Héctor Bosqueb. 1978ESSpanish footballer
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,460 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,459 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,972 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,468 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 538 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 159 | #1,118 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 149 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Bosque mean, and where does it come from?
- grove Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Bosque 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 is Bosque most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bosque is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bosque?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,264 people named Bosque, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bosqueThe 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, “Bosque”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.