Boaventura
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/boavẽtuɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boaventura is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- MZMozambique≈1 in 4.3K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 21K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boaventura 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #506 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 2.2K | Boaventura | 145 |
| MZ Mozambique | #405 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Boaventura | 14 |
| AO Angola | #545 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Boaventura | 19 |
| PT Portugal | #907 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Boaventura | 46 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 648K | 12 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | Boaventura | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | — | — |
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 — Nomes (census name API); the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Lourenço José Boaventura de Almadab. 1758PThistorical person
- Albino Boaventurab. 1922BRBrazilian politician (1922-2002)
- Sinval Boaventurab. 1924BRBrazilian politician
- Edivaldo Boaventurab. 1933BRBrazilian university professor, lawyer, sociologist and writer, Secretary of Education for the State of Bahia and president of the Academy of Letters of the same state
- José Francisco Boaventurab. 1934PTPortuguese politician
- Aldo Boaventurab. 1964BRBrazilian politician
- Daniel Boaventurab. 1970BRBrazilian recording artist, musician and actor
- William Boaventurab. 1980BRBrazilian footballer
- Keyla Boaventurab. 1982BRBrazilian singer, composer and television presenter
- Flávio Boaventurab. 1987BRfootballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.2K | #5,558 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.1K | #2,299 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #5,908 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 982 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 528 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 454 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 354 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 340 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Boaventura?
- A machine transcription gives /boavẽtuɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Boaventura?
- In the etymology graph, Bonaventura and Bonaventure are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Boaventura have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Boaventura in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boaventura.
- How common is the name Boaventura?
- In Spain, the national register counted 38 people named Boaventura, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Boaventura compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Boaventura is the 506th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boaventura?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boaventuraThe 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, “Boaventura” — the 506th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.