Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and North German : topographic name from Middle Dutch bussch, meaning ‘wood’ rather than ‘bush’, also found in place names, such as ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
- German (Bösch) : see Boesch.
- Catalan : habitational name from a place named with Bosc(h), from Late Latin boscus ‘wood’.