Bòn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to save (every bit of); to glean; to collect (bit by bit); to lay up (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bòn is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,622 people, counted by IBGE.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
- SISlovenia1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bòn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,622 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Boen in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, KE Kenya and Bon in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to save (every bit of); to glean; to collect (bit by bit); to lay up
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bòn is found
(measured from records)Bòn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,622 | 1 in 131K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,291 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Boen | 56 |
| US United States | 1,260as Boen | 1 in 264K | 1.3K | Bon | 250 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Boen | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 756 | 1 in 4.5K | 756 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 345as Boen | 1 in 34K | 364 | Boen | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | 184 | 1 in 46K | 184 | — | 25 |
| SI Slovenia | 93 | 1 in 23K | 93 | — | 2 |
1,622 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bòn mean, and where does it come from?
- to save (every bit of); to glean; to collect (bit by bit); to lay up Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bòn a male or female name?
- Bòn is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bòn?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Bòn, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Netherlands, United States, Kenya and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bòn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bòn is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bòn?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,622 people named Bòn, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bòn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B2nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bòn” — ranked 5921st in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.