Where Does the Bosse Surname Come From?

Genealogists group Bosse with Busse. Read literally, Bosse points to “From Burkhard, or a nickname”.

• Other spellings include Buss and Bussmann.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Bosse writes “o” in place of the “u” found in Busse, a common scribal difference.
• 4,036 Americans were listed as Bosse in the 2010 census. Between 1891 and 2000, 3,528 babies born in France were registered as Bosse, with the most births in 1961–1970. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Busse and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Bosse family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.