Bonì
surname · Latin script
Bonì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a variant of Boney (2) that may have died out in recent times.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.9K
- UYUruguay1 in 35K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,256 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boni in IT Italy, US United States, CH Switzerland and 1 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
(measured from records)a variant of Boney (2) that may have died out in recent times.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bonì 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 2,256 | 1 in 588K | 2.3K | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,326 | 1 in 251K | 1.4K | Boni | 100 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,219 | 1 in 6.9K | 1.2K | Boni | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,025 | 1 in 44K | 1K | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 122 | 1 in 96K | 122 | Boni | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 97 | 1 in 35K | 97 | — | — |
| IT Italy | #643 | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Boni | 135 |
| HR Croatia | — | 47 | 1 in 90K | 47 | — | — |
2,256 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)- Roberta BonìITresearcher
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Bonì mean, and where does it come from?
- a variant of Boney (2) that may have died out in recent times. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Bonì have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Bonì, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bonì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bonì is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 6.9 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bonì?
- In India, the national register counted 2,256 people named Bonì, about 1 in 588 thousand residents.
- How common is Bonì compared with other names?
- In Italy, Bonì is the 643rd most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bon%C3%ACThe 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, “Bonì” — the 643rd most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.