Bóū
surname · Latin script
Bóū is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Aromanian bou.
- ESSpain1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 76K
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
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 Bóū itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
4,587 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boue in ES Spain, US United States and Bou in BE Belgium.
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)Inherited from Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Aromanian bou.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bóū 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 4,587 | 1 in 11K | 4.6K | Boue | 64 |
| US United States | 1,039 | 1 in 320K | 1.1K | Boue | 221 |
| AR Argentina | 597 | 1 in 76K | 597 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 315 | 1 in 672K | 315 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 47as Boué | 1 in 249K | 47 | Bou | 25 |
| CR Costa Rica | 30 | 1 in 170K | 30 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
4,587 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling bou. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bóū mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Aromanian bou. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bóū have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Bóū, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boue.
- Where is Bóū most common?
- Bóū is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bóū?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,587 people named Bóū, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B3%C5%ABThe 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, “Bóū”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.