Box
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Box in several counties, or one living by a box tree; perhaps also one who makes articles from box wood
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Box is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 23Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 25Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
10,098 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Person from Box in several counties, or one living by a box tree; perhaps also one who makes articles from box wood.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Box 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,098 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Box | 376 |
| AU Australia | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Box | 134 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Box | 174 |
| CA Canada | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Box | 86 |
| ES Spain | 880 | 1 in 57K | 880 | — | 42 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Box | 33 |
| BZ Belize | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Box | 1 |
| KY Cayman Islands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Box | 1 |
10,098 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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)Box is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from box-tree/box-wood, used of yellow colour or jaundice; or from a place name Box; first attested Adam Box 1276 in LLB A
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Voir Box-calf .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In German, speaker, pit, stall
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Dutch, speaker
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
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)- Henry Box Brownb. 1815USAmerican magician, illusionist, actor and former slave
- John C. Boxb. 1871USAmerican politician (1871-1941)
- Sydney Boxb. 1907GBwriter, screenwriter (1907-1983)
- George Boxb. 1919GBBritish statistician (1919-2013)
- Joey Boxb. 1965USactor
- Steve Boxb. 1967GBBritish animator and director
- Kate Boxb. 1979AUAustralian actress
- Waylon Francisb. 1990CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Ana Pérez Boxb. 1995ESSpanish judoka
- Brady Boxactor
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,190 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.6K | #3,616 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 880 | #4,959 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 880 | #4,954 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Box mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Box in several counties, or one living by a box tree; perhaps also one who makes articles from box wood. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Box have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Box, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled box.
- How common is the name Box?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,098 people named Box in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boxThe 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, “Box”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.