Bŏ
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bŏ is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse búa, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.
- USUnited States1 in 18K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 121
- DKDenmark1 in 546
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121 (inferred from the name graph)
84,009 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bo in SE Sweden, US United States, BH Bahrain.
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)- Old Norsebúa(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*būaną(measured from records)
From Old Norse búa, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bŏ 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.
84,009 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Bŏ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse búa, from Proto-Germanic *būaną. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 8 other sources.
- Is Bŏ a male or female name?
- Bŏ 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.
- In which country does Bŏ have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 84 thousand people named Bŏ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bo.
- Where is Bŏ most common?
- Bŏ is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 121 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bŏ?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 84,009 people named Bŏ, about 1 in 121 residents.
- How common is Bŏ compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Bŏ is the 117th most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bŏ?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C5%8FThe 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, “Bŏ” — the 117th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.