The BOSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,547	3809	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	2,613	2333	0.005	52
Change since 1880	+5934	-1476	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	219	6918	0.001	13
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for BOSS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	754	4270	0.002	22
Michigan	745	1648	0.007	75
Illinois	497	2861	0.004	40
Florida	477	4657	0.003	30
New York	456	4623	0.002	24
Top States for BOSS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	85	2099	0.008	81
Michigan	745	1648	0.007	75
Wisconsin	383	1987	0.007	71
Oregon	210	2261	0.006	61
Idaho	74	2716	0.006	57

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BOSS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BOSS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BOSS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BOSS by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BOSS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BOSS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BOSS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BOSS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	808	9.45
White (Hispanic)	118	1.38
Mixed Race	112	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.46
Asian/Pacific	36	0.42
White (Caucasian)	7,434	86.98

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BOSS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to BOSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOSS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.