Bó
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Benin it is the 64th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 121(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 1.5K
- USUnited States1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121 (inferred from the name graph)
≈960,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bo in US United States, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bó 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.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bó is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bbj, Marker of the Progressive aspect (with a focus on effort).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, to pack; to tie into pack or bundle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亳
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, superseded spelling of bò
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tyz, water source
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, ox, cow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bo Yab. 1000Chinese musician
- Armando Bób. 1914ARArgentine actor, director and screenwriter (1914–1981)
- Víctor Bób. 1943ARArgentine film actor
- Armando Bób. 1978ARArgentinian screenwriter and director
- Bo Rongb. 1985CNbadminton player
- Bode Lvxinnot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 102106
- Fu Shinot in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 42157)
- Bo Yeperson, CBDB = 151258
- Bo Yaperson, CBDB = 157173
- Bo Jiuguiperson, CBDB = 158526
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bó have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 960 thousand people named Bó in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bo.
- Where is Bó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bó is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 121 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bó?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 84,009 people named Bó, about 1 in 121 residents.
- How common is Bó compared with other names?
- In Benin, Bó is the 64th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bó?
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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%B3The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bó” — the 64th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.