# Boge (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/boge/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Norwegian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norwegian |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 548 |
| US rank (2010) | 40,016 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 563,404 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.7% (552 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian Boge, a topographic or habitational surname from Old Norse bugr (“hook; bay, inlet”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Boge in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Similar surnames

Boggs, Boyce, Bowes, Bosse, Bogue, Bose, Boice, Boese, Boose, Boes, Booze, Boyes.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.