The Boge surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 548 people carried this name — #40,016 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is down 1% from 552 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Boge surname
Borrowed from Norwegian Boge, a topographic or habitational surname from Old Norse bugr (“hook; bay, inlet”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Boge» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 307 people named Boge.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 37 départements, most often Aube.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
659 people named Boge are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
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) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Boge,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gustaf Boge 1891–1975 · photographer
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Herbert Boge 1917–1998 · philologist
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Heinrich Boge 1929–2020 · jurist
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Anne-Lise Boge 1939– · writer
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Nortrud Boge-Erli 1943– · writer
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Edith Boge 1950– · artist
Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Boge.
- Boffa 473 · U.S. census
- Boga 387 · U.S. census
- Bogaert 243 · U.S. census
- Bogard 3,875 · U.S. census
- Bogdan 3,001 · U.S. census
- Bogdanovic 291 · U.S. census
- Bogen 1,120 · U.S. census
- Boggio 784 · U.S. census
- Boghossian 399 · U.S. census
- Bogner 2,367 · U.S. census
- Bogo 114 · U.S. census
- Bohan 2,351 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Boge is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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