Bōō
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bōō is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Benin it is the 64th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From boo (“good”), from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, from Latin bonus.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 617K
- SESweden1 in 121as Bo
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 Bōō 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
- 420 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960,000 named Bo, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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 Bo in US United States, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands and 3 more and Boo in MY Malaysia.
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)
- Old Galician-Portuguesebõo(measured from records)
- Latinbonus(measured from records)
From boo (“good”), from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, from Latin bonus.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bōō 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 | — | ≈960,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Bo | 63 |
| SE Sweden | #586 | 84,009as Bo | 1 in 121 | 84K | Bo | 88 |
| US United States | — | 18,833as Bo | 1 in 18K | 16K | Bo | 420 |
| BJ Benin | #64 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Bo | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10,751as Bo | 1 in 546 | 11K | — | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Boo | 62 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,597as Bo | 1 in 3.5K | 3.2K | Bo | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 28 | 1 in 617K | 5.8K | Bo | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Bōō mean, and where does it come from?
- From boo (“good”), from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, from Latin bonus. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Bōō a male or female name?
- Bōō is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bōō have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 960 thousand people named Bo in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bōō?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 28 people named Bōō, about 1 in 617 thousand residents.
- How common is Bōō compared with other names?
- In Benin, Bōō is the 64th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C5%8D%C5%8DThe 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, “Bōō” — the 64th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.