Bōÿ
surname · Latin script
Bōÿ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 18,094 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 18K
- DKDenmark1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
18,094 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boy in US United States, ID Indonesia, 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”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bōÿ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,094 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Boy | 45 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,549 | 1 in 6.8K | 2.5K | Boy | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 65 | 1 in 157K | 65 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 54 | 1 in 109K | 54 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | #821 | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | listed | Boy | 135 |
| FI Finland | — | 18 | 1 in 310K | 69 | — | 2 |
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bōÿ 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Bōÿ?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Bōÿ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boy. After it come Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bōÿ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bōÿ 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 Bōÿ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,094 people named Bōÿ in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Bōÿ compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Bōÿ is the 821st most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bōÿ?
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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%C5%8D%C3%BFThe 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, “Bōÿ” — ranked 1710th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.