Boñilla

surname · Latin script

Boñilla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico 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).

  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 188
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 200

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 Boñilla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈77,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
417 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 182 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
BoñillaLatin(measured from records)
БонильяCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bonilla in MX Mexico, US United States, SV El Salvador and 4 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)
Derivation of Boñilla: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Boñilla
  1. OFbonnefern.(measured from records)
  2. 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)

Boñilla 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.

Where Boñilla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#228≈77,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K1.6KBonilla203
CO Colombia#128≈74,000 est.≈1 in 71437Bonilla174
HN Honduras#20≈55,000 est.≈1 in 196—Bonilla72
US United States—51,4751 in 6.5K54KBonilla417
SV El Salvador#42≈35,000 est.≈1 in 18235KBonilla72
EC Ecuador#7929,8731 in 56630KBonilla78
CR Costa Rica#4727,1381 in 18827KBonilla123
UY Uruguay—9,8001 in 3469.8K—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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Boñilla is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Philippines

    Also written Bonilla

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Boñilla under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Boñilla 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 Boñilla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Boñilla in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonilla.
How common is the name Boñilla?
In the United States, the national register counted 51,475 people named Boñilla in 2010, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
How common is Boñilla compared with other names?
In Mexico, Boñilla is the 228th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Boñilla” — the 228th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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