Bŏm
given name · Latin script
Bŏm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch boom.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 33Kas 봄(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
- BRBrazil1 in 4.1M
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 Bŏm 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 named 봄, est.
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boom in US United States, GB United Kingdom and 봄 in KR South Korea.
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)
- Dutchboom(measured from records)
- Old Dutchbōm(inferred from the name graph)via boom
- Proto-West Germanic*baum(inferred from the name graph)via boom
- Proto-Germanic*baumaz(inferred from the name graph)via boom
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from Dutch boom.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bŏm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 126 | 봄 | 58 |
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 967 | Boom | 48 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 12K | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 15 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Boom | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 4.3K | — | 4 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 Bŏm mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch boom. Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Is Bŏm a male or female name?
- Bŏm is a female 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 Bŏm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named 봄 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bŏm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bŏm is densest in the United States — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bŏm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 120 people named Bŏm in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C5%8FmThe 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, “Bŏm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.