Bôb
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bôb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Caledonia it is the 37th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.
- USUnited States1 in 6.5K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 7.4K
- DKDenmark1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
51,102 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bob in US United States, NC New Caledonia.
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)
From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bôb 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 51,102 | 1 in 6.5K | 50K | Bob | 132 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,388 | 1 in 7.4K | 1.4K | — | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 274 | 1 in 21K | 274 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 211 | 1 in 1M | 211 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 53 | 1 in 944K | 152 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 51 | 1 in 109K | 114 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 25 | 1 in 30K | 25 | — | — |
| NC New Caledonia | #37 | — | — | — | Bob | 12 |
51,102 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Bôb mean, and where does it come from?
- From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Bôb have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Bôb, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bob.
- Where is Bôb most common?
- Bôb is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bôb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,102 people named Bôb in 2020, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bôb compared with other names?
- In New Caledonia, Bôb is the 37th most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B4bThe 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, “Bôb” — the 37th most common given name in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.