The Boden surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,445 people carried this name — #7,494 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 66,200 people counted. That is up 8% from 4,133 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Boden surname
An English surname common in Shropshire and the West Midlands area of central England.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Boden» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 526 people named Boden live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 73 people named Boden.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,315 people named Boden is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Boden in American newspapers,
1915–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 223,494 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Boden,
with a public archive behind them.
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Carl Gottlob Boden 1797–1877 -
Joseph Boden d. 1811 · military officer
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Joseph Boden d. 1811 · military officer
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Pauline Alison Copland d. 2001
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Hans Boden 1517– · painter
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John Boden 1547–1615 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Boden.
When the index is not enough
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