Botón

surname · Latin script

Meaning: button (clothing, mechanical)

Botón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 260K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 525K
  • ESSpain1 in 575K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

403 people

Record sources
77 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 260K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boton in PH Philippines, US United States, BE Belgium 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)

button (clothing, mechanical)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Botón 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.

Where Botón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil4031 in 525K403——
ES Spain871 in 575K87—2
BE Belgium451 in 260K45Boton8
PH Philippines———Boton25
US United States——listedBoton77
BJ Benin———Boton6

403 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Botón is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Ботон, Boton

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Boṭon, Boton

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Botón is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pag, push button

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Asturian, button

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Botón under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Botón mean, and where does it come from?
button (clothing, mechanical) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Botón have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 403 people named Botón, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Botón most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Botón is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 260 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Botón?
In Brazil, the national register counted 403 people named Botón, about 1 in 525 thousand residents.

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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, “Botón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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