Where Does the Boche Surname Come From?

Arms linked to Bosch and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Boche means

Boche is one more way Bosch has been written over the centuries. Read literally, Boche points to “Bush, thicket”.

Before spelling was fixed, Bosch was also written Boche. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Boche with 448 bearers, at rank 47,356. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 1,516 babies born in France were registered as Boche, with the most births in 1951–1960.

Research your Boche family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.