Bøe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bøːə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bøe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 659(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 202K
- SESweden1 in 850K
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 Bøe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 659 (inferred from the name graph)
8,298 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boee in IN India, GH Ghana.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bøe 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.
8,298 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johannes Bøeb. 1891NONorwegian archaeologist
- Gunnar Bøeb. 1917NONorwegian economist (1917–1989)
- Reidar Bøeb. 1921NONorwegian musician
- Alf Bøeb. 1927NONorwegian art historian
- Sigve Bøeb. 1948NONorwegian actor, singer and film director
- Anne Bøeb. 1956NONorwegian writer
- Anette Bøeb. 1957NONorwegian sportswoman
- Eirik Glambek Bøeb. 1975NONorwegian singer
- Sondre Oddvoll Bøeb. 1998NONorwegian figure skater
- Magnus Bøeb. 1998KRSouth Korean and Norwegian cross-country skier
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8.3K | #93 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29 | #17,042 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #34,765 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #215,116 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bøe?
- A machine transcription gives /bøːə/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Bøe have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Bøe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bøe.
- Where is Bøe most common?
- Bøe is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 659 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bøe?
- In Norway, the national register counted 8,298 people named Bøe, about 1 in 659 residents.
- How common is Bøe compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bøe is the 715th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bøe?
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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%B8eThe 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, “Bøe” — the 715th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.