Bo-Bo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives signifying that a locomotive has four axles, each powered by a motor, on two bogies
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bo-Bo is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 8.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 25Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
9,254 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cameroon, 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 Bobo in US United States, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa 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)A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives signifying that a locomotive has four axles, each powered by a motor, on two bogies.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bo-Bo 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 | — | 9,254 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | BoBo | 333 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | BoBo | 9 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | BoBo | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | listed | BoBo | 35 |
| CM Cameroon | #696 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | BoBo | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | BoBo | 29 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 441 | — | 9 |
| SN Senegal | #504 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | BoBo | 13 |
9,254 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling bobo. 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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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 Bo-Bo mean, and where does it come from?
- A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives signifying that a locomotive has four axles, each powered by a motor, on two bogies. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bo-Bo a male or female name?
- Bo-Bo 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 Bo-Bo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Bo-Bo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled BoBo.
- How common is the name Bo-Bo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,254 people named Bo-Bo in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Bo-Bo compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Bo-Bo is the 504th most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bo-boThe 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, “Bo-Bo” — the 504th most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.