Bön
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stupid
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bön is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 264Kas Boen(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.5K
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
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 Bön 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,622 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boen in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, KE Kenya and Bon in US United States.
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)
stupid
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bön 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,622 | 1 in 131K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,291 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Boen | 56 |
| US United States | 1,260as Boen | 1 in 264K | 1.3K | Bon | 250 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Boen | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 756 | 1 in 4.5K | 756 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 345as Boen | 1 in 34K | 364 | Boen | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | 184 | 1 in 46K | 184 | — | 25 |
| SI Slovenia | 93 | 1 in 23K | 93 | — | 2 |
1,622 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Bön is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, prayer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bön mean, and where does it come from?
- stupid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bön have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Bön, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bön most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bön is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bön?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,622 people named Bön, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bön?
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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%B6nThe 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, “Bön”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.