Boss

At the 2020 census, 8,324 Americans bore the surname Boss — 4,136th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,900.

By the numbers

People: 8,324
Rank: 4,136th
How common: 1 in 35,900
Per 100,000: 2.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Boss

Hugo Boss (1885–1948)German fashion designer
Lewis Boss (1846–1912)American astronomer
Ross the Boss (1954–2026)American guitarist
Stephen "tWitch" Boss (1982–2022)American actor
Medard Boss (1903–1990)Swiss psychologist

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

Surnames like Boss

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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.