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The bosse Surname

bosse Name Meaning and History

  1. French (also Bossé): nickname for a hunchback, from Old French bossu ‘hunchbacked’ (a derivative of bosse ‘lump’, ‘hump’).
  2. French: metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from bosse ‘barrel’, ‘keg’.
  3. South German, Swiss German, and Danish: from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart).
  4. Dutch: variant of Bosch.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bosse Families in the US in 1920
Number of bosse families
 29-55
 10-28		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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