Bogus
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Polish Bogus, Boguś, or Romanian Boguș.
Proper noun
editBogus (plural Boguses)
- A surname.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Bogus is the 25332nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 977 individuals. Bogus is most common among White (79.02%) and Black/African American (16.99%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bogus”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 184.
Polish
editEtymology
editFrom names beginning with Bog-, e.g. Bogumił, Bogusław, and Bogdan.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editBogus m pers
- a male surname
Declension
editDeclension of Bogus
Proper noun
editBogus f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Further reading
edit- “Bogus”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022
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- English terms borrowed from Polish
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- English terms borrowed from Romanian
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- English surnames from Romanian
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔɡus
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔɡus/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish surnames
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- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
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