Bogan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: An unsophisticated person from a working class background

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/boʊɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 41K(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 27K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 32K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
352 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An unsophisticated person from a working class background.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bogan 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 Bogan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈16,000 est.≈1 in 88K—Bogan6
PK Pakistan≈8,700 est.≈1 in 27K—Bogan2
US United States8,0341 in 41K8KBogan352
ID Indonesia≈2,000 est.≈1 in 134K—Bogan18
EG Egypt≈1,500 est.≈1 in 68K—Bogan3
DZ Algeria≈1,300 est.≈1 in 32K—Bogan1
LB Lebanon≈150 est.≈1 in 37K—Bogan2
IE Ireland≈130 est.≈1 in 41K—Bogan33

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. 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)

Bogan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Boğan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Boğan, Bogaň

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Boğan

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Canada, Ukraine

    Also written Boğan

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Боган, Boğan

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Boğan

  • Czech surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Bogáň, Bogaň, Boğan

36 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)

Bogan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of bogar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In yxg, sleep

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, BOGAN . Bogando . Bogan apar tartean aienatu ziran artean . Ill Testim 4.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

16001700180019002000Zachary Bogan, b. 1625Dan Bogan, b. 1860Gerald F. Bogan, b. 1894Louise Bogan, b. 1897Lucille Bogan, b. 1897Tommy Bogan, b. 1920Arthur Bogan, b. 1950Dontavia Bogan, b. 1988

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)

FormalDear Bogan,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Bogan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108K#4,425
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.7K#4,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.6K#4,326
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Bogan mean, and where does it come from?
An unsophisticated person from a working class background. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Bogan?
A machine transcription gives /boʊɡən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bogan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Bogan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bogan.
How common is the name Bogan?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,034 people named Bogan in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Bogan?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bogan

The 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, “Bogan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Bogan parses inside a full name →