Bõŷ

surname · Latin script

Bõŷ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 18K
  • DKDenmark1 in 109K

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.

United States (measured from records)

18,094 people, 2020

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

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:

Locally spelled Boy in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”).

Sources 4

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Nordic Names
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bõŷ 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 Bõŷ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States18,0941 in 18K18KBoy55
NL Netherlands2,5491 in 6.8K2.5KBoy13
SE Sweden651 in 157K65—1
DK Denmark541 in 109K54——
FI Finland181 in 310K69—1

18,094 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bõŷ 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

What does the name Bõŷ mean, and where does it come from?
From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Bõŷ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Bõŷ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boy.
Where is Bõŷ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bõŷ is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bõŷ?
In the United States, the national register counted 18,094 people named Bõŷ in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

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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, “Bõŷ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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