Boster
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boster is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 226K◐
- CACanada1 in 350K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 723K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 11,738 | 85% |
| GB United Kingdom | 267 | 2% |
| CA Canada | 195 | 1% |
| MX Mexico | 132 | 1% |
| BR Brazil | 96 | 1% |
≈12,428 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English13K91%
- Spanish4713%
- German1411%
- Portuguese1131%
- French631%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 12,672 | 91% |
| Spanish | 471 | 3% |
| German | 141 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 113 | 1% |
| French | 63 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Jolynn Bosterb. 1951USformer member of the Ohio House of Representatives
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,766 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,254 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,838 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #169,133 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1985 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1962 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1955 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1950 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1946 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1940 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Boster?
- Our records include 12,428 bearers of Boster across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Boster have the most bearers?
- Boster is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boster”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.