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bos Name Meaning and History

  1. Reduced form of Dutch Van den Bos, a variant of the topographic name Vandenbosch.
  2. South German and French: from the Germanic personal name Boso (see Boos).
  3. French (central France): variant of Bois.
  4. Hungarian (Bos): from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bo.
  5. Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called Bos, formerly in Pozsony county, Hungary, now part of Slovakia.
  6. Hungarian (Bós): from the old Magyar secular name Bós.
  7. Polish (Bos): from a pet form of the personal names Boleslaw or Boguslaw.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bos name in History

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Distribution of bos Families in the US in 1920
Number of bos families
 46-89
 16-45		 1-15
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Bos family, Terschelling, Netherlands Jan van Wassenhove 1
Jacob Bos e_lamonda 1
Jacob Bos 1853 Netherlands e_lamonda 0
Jacob Bos 1853 Netherlands e_lamonda 0
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Bos family info. Robin Bos 3
Iva Mae Bos m Leroy Eugene Morris ldaywmuot 1
Rudolph J. Bos, Chicago, IL abt 1925-1928 jheath50 0
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