# Bosse (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,036 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,222 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 76,498 people |
| Change since 2000 | +14% (3,545 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * Borrowed from French Bosse or Bossé, a nickname for a hunchback, from bosse (“bump, hump”). * Borrowed from South German Bosse, a pet form of the personal name Burkhard. * Borrowed from Dutch Bosse, a variant of Bosch.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bosse 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) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bosse in the Russian Empire and the United States.

## People named Bosse

- Harald Julius von Bosse, Baltic German artist (1812–1894)
- Vera de Bosset, American ballet dancer (1889-1982)
- Malcolm Bosse, American writer (1926–2002)

## Similar surnames

Boss, Bussey, Busse, Bos, Boos, Bose, Boese, Boose, Boes, Bessey, Besse, Bouse.

## 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.