Given name & surname
Bose
Bose is a surname from Bengali, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Bose comes from Bengali, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Bengali বোস, from Sanskrit वसु, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1883. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bose through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20
- 20 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1940. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1914. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 197 as a first name in 2020; 3,693 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bose’s family of names
In German usage, Bose as a surname has a related form in BOOS. In English usage, Bose as a surname was borrowed from the Bengali form বোস.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bose
- Bosede AfolabiUK-born Nigerian gynaecologist, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the College of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria
- Bose KaffoNigerian table tennis playerborn 1972
- Bose OguluNigerian academic and artist manager
- Bose Krishnamacharipainterborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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