Bönilla
surname · Latin script
Bönilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: folk etymology, from any one of three places in Normandy called Bonneville, from OF bonne (fern.) good (see Bon) + ville settlement (see Ville).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 188(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 196
- HNHonduras≈1 in 229
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bonilla in US United States, SV El Salvador, CO Colombia 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)- OFbonnefern.(measured from records)
- LLbalnella(measured from records)
folk etymology, from any one of three places in Normandy called Bonneville, from OF bonne (fern.) good (see Bon) + ville settlement (see Ville). inces of Avila and Cuenca, so called from LL balnella, pi. of balnellum, a dim. of class. L balneum bath (cf. Bain 4). Var.: Bondfield.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bönilla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #128 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 909 | 37 | Bonilla | 174 |
| US United States | — | 51,475 | 1 in 6.5K | 54K | Bonilla | 417 |
| HN Honduras | #20 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 229 | — | Bonilla | 72 |
| SV El Salvador | #42 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 196 | 35K | Bonilla | 72 |
| EC Ecuador | #79 | 29,873 | 1 in 566 | 30K | Bonilla | 78 |
| CR Costa Rica | #47 | 27,138 | 1 in 188 | 27K | Bonilla | 123 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 9,800 | 1 in 346 | 9.8K | — | 62 |
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 2020; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry 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 Bönilla mean, and where does it come from?
- folk etymology, from any one of three places in Normandy called Bonneville, from OF bonne (fern.) good (see Bon) + ville settlement (see Ville). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bönilla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Bönilla in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonilla.
- Where is Bönilla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bönilla is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 188 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bönilla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,475 people named Bönilla in 2010, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bönilla compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Bönilla is the 128th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B6nillaThe 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, “Bönilla” — the 128th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.