Bodnar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: subst. butnar". 1. - S
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bədˈnɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bodnar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 81st most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 60K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.3Kas Боднар
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 Bodnar 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Боднар, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Боднар in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China and Bodnár in HU Hungary, SK Slovakia.
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)
subst. butnar". 1. - S. (Bal III); Bodndrescu, poetul.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bodnar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #160 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Боднар | 60 |
| CN China | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Боднар | 3 |
| US United States | — | 5,502 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Bodnar | 345 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,433 | 1 in 8.6K | 2.2K | Bodnar | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Боднар | 120 |
| HU Hungary | #81 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 13K | Bodnár | 119 |
| SK Slovakia | #556 | 2,048 | 1 in 2.7K | 2K | Bodnár | 26 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Bodnar | 21 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bodnar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, a surname originating as an occupation
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gus Bodnarb. 1923CACanadian ice hockey player (1923-2005)
- Andrew Bodnarb. 1954GBBritish musician
- Olha Bodnarb. 1965UAUkrainian politician
- Mykola Bodnarb. 1972UAUkrainian chess player
- Vasyl Bodnarb. 1976UAUkrainian diplomat
- Adam Bodnarb. 1977PLPolish human rights activist and ombudsman
- Łukasz Bodnarb. 1982PLroad bicycle racer
- Maciej Bodnarb. 1985PLPolish professional road racing cyclist
- Alexandru Bodnarb. 1990RORomanian archer
- Nicoleta-Ancuța Bodnarb. 1998RORomanian rower
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.5K | #6,214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.2K | #6,303 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.2K | #1,193 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.2K | #1,192 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Bodnar?
- A machine transcription gives /bədˈnɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bodnar mean?
- Recorded meaning: subst. butnar". 1. - S.
- In which country does Bodnar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Боднар in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bodnar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bodnar is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bodnar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,502 people named Bodnar in 2010, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Bodnar compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Bodnar is the 160th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bodnarThe 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, “Bodnar” — the 160th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.