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boss Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a hunchback, from Old French bossu ‘hunchbacked’ (a derivative of bosse ‘lump’, ‘hump’; compare Bossard 2).
  2. German: from a short form of the personal name Borkhardt, a variant of Burkhart.
  3. Possibly an altered spelling of South German Bös (see Bos).
  4. Danish: medieval variant of Buus, a surname of uncertain origin, perhaps from German busemen ‘devil’, ‘ghost’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the boss family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of boss Families in the US in 1920
Number of boss families
 110-218
 37-109		 1-36
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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