Bose

Bose is the 8,551st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,693 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 80,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,693
Rank: 8,551st
How common: 1 in 80,900
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Bengali

from colloquial Bengali বোস.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bose described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 48.3%
White, not Hispanic 40.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945)Indian nationalist leader
Rahul Bose (born 1967)Indian actor
Lucia Bose (1931–2020)Italian-born Spanish actress
Miguel Bosé (born 1956)Spanish-Italian musician, singer and actor
Amar Bose (1929–2013)Indian American academic entrepreneur
Rash Behari Bose (1886–1945)Indian independence activist
Priyanka BoseIndian actress

People named Bose with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bose

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.