Boán
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk; Derbys. see Bore .
- USUnited States1 in 212K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 269K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 42K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, 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 Boan in US United States, AR Argentina, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)
Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk; Derbys. see Bore .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boán 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Boan | 1 |
| US United States | 1,566 | 1 in 212K | 1.6K | Boan | 213 |
| ES Spain | 241 | 1 in 208K | 241 | Boan | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 349K | listed | Boan | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 169 | 1 in 269K | 169 | Boan | 33 |
| LR Liberia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Boan | 2 |
| FI Finland | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 185K | 15 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | Boan | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Boan | 1 |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Man Chongb. 209CNnot in their usual nameCao Wei general and official (died 242)
- Man Guib. 1550CNnot in their usual nameChinese general
- Man Dekunb. 1776not in their usual nameQing dynasty general
- Man Dandanb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese cross-country skier
- Man Chaojiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 132088
- Man Zhongxingnot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 27407
- Man Wenqingnot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 37156
- Man Zhizhongnot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 49961
- Man Zhonghangnot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 97713
- Man Weiduannot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 97714
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boán mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk; Derbys. see Bore . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Boán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Boán in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boan.
- How common is the name Boán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,566 people named Boán in 2010, about 1 in 212 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bo%C3%A1nThe 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, “Boán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.