Boton
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈboʊtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- 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)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 260K (inferred from the name graph)
403 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 403 | 1 in 525K | 403 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 87 | 1 in 575K | 87 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 45 | 1 in 260K | 45 | Boton | 8 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Boton | 25 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Boton | 77 |
| BJ Benin | — | — | — | Boton | 6 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Boton is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kea, button
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, litter (of animals, especially rabbits)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, button, key (to be pushed or pressed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, button (pressed mechanical device)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of boto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, superessive singular of bot
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)
- Babylas BotonBJAfrican journalist and political presenter
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 403 | #20,587 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 87 | #30,404 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 87 | #30,268 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 45 | #28,221 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Boton?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boton have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 403 people named Boton, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boton 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 Boton?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 403 people named Boton, about 1 in 525 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boton?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/botonThe 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, “Boton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.