Böê
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Böê is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi.
- DKDenmark1 in 18K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 86K
- VUVanuatu≈1 in 710
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 Böê itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 710 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vanuatu, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boe in US United States, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 3 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(measured from records)
* As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi. * As a Dutch and German surname, reduced from Bode. * As a West Frisian surname, from the name Boye.
Sources 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Böê 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Boe | 4 |
| NO Norway | #687 | 4,914as Bø | 1 in 1.1K | 4.9K | Boe | 67 |
| US United States | — | 3,850 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Boe | 319 |
| FR France | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 96 | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 109K | listed | Boe | 16 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Boe | 9 |
| VU Vanuatu | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 710 | 2 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | #453 | 326 | 1 in 18K | 326 | Boe | 68 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Vanuatu Electoral Office — 2020 General Election consolidated candidate list. 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 Böê mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Böê a male or female name?
- Böê is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Böê have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Böê in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boe.
- How common is the name Böê?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,850 people named Böê in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Böê compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Böê is the 453rd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B6%C3%AAThe 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, “Böê” — the 453rd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.