Bôbô

Name: Bôbô: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
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surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 3.4K
CMCameroon≈1 in 7.4K

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)
Sources: 333 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

BoBo

Locally spelled Bobo in US United States, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and 6 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 3

The African book of names
Nordic Names
The book of African names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bôbô 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 Bôbô is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CN China	—	≈56,000 est.	≈1 in 25K	—	BoBo	20
US United States	—	9,254	1 in 36K	9.3K	BoBo	333
BF Burkina Faso	#548	≈6,200 est.	≈1 in 3.4K	—	BoBo	3
NG Nigeria	—	≈4,500 est.	≈1 in 48K	listed	BoBo	35
CD Congo - Kinshasa	—	≈4,400 est.	≈1 in 23K	—	BoBo	9
CM Cameroon	#696	≈3,800 est.	≈1 in 7.4K	—	BoBo	8
DZ Algeria	—	≈3,500 est.	≈1 in 12K	—	BoBo	8
ZA South Africa	—	≈2,400 est.	≈1 in 23K	—	BoBo	29
SN Senegal	#504	≈230 est.	≈1 in 69K	1	BoBo	13

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; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)

Bôbô is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written BoBo

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bôbô under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bôbô have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Bôbô in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled BoBo.
How common is the name Bôbô?: In the United States, the national register counted 9,254 people named Bôbô in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
How common is Bôbô compared with other names?: In Senegal, Bôbô is the 504th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B4b%C3%B4

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 2026-10-10 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, “Bôbô” — the 504th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)