Bos Family History
- Bos Name Meaning
- Reduced form of Dutch Van den Bos, a variant of the topographic name Vandenbosch. South German and French: from the Germanic personal name Boso (see Boos). French (central France): variant of Bois. Hungarian (Bos): from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bo. Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called Bos, formerly in Pozsony county, Hungary, now part of Slovakia. Hungarian (Bós): from the old Magyar secular name Bós. Polish (Bos): from a pet form of the personal names Boleslaw or Boguslaw.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 648,898 Historical Documents with Bos on Ancestry
- 439,903 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,469 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,873 Military Records
- 11,920 Immigration Records
- 167,733 Member Trees
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Number of Bos families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bos census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Bos census records
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