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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