The bos Surname
bos Name Meaning and History
- Reduced form of Dutch Van den Bos, a variant of the topographic name Vandenbosch.
- South German and French: from the Germanic personal name Boso (see Boos).
- French (central France): variant of Bois.
- Hungarian (Bos): from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bo.
- Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called Bos, formerly in Pozsony county, Hungary, now part of Slovakia.
- Hungarian (Bós): from the old Magyar secular name Bós.
- 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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