Bos Family Crest and Last Name Background

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Bos family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

What Bos means

The Bos last name has Dutch roots. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “dweller in, or near, the woods; the quarrelsome man”.

Landscape names of this kind told neighbours where a family's house stood. Smith also lists Bose. In the Spanish register, Bos appears 253 times as a first surname and 132 times as a second one. The 2010 census count for Bos in the United States was 3,792, good for rank 8,665.

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