Bohán
surname · Latin script
Bohán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Buadhacháin (“descendant of Buadhachán”), a personal name from the diminutive form of buadhach (“victorious”).
- USUnited States1 in 141K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- NLNetherlands1 in 346K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bohán 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 141K (inferred from the name graph)
2,351 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bohan in US United States.
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)
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Buadhacháin (“descendant of Buadhachán”), a personal name from the diminutive form of buadhach (“victorious”).
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bohán 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 | 2,351 | 1 in 141K | 2.4K | Bohan | 6 |
| PL Poland | 146as Bokhan | 1 in 262K | 84 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 50 | 1 in 346K | 50 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 33 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
2,351 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Bohán mean, and where does it come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Buadhacháin (“descendant of Buadhachán”), a personal name from the diminutive form of buadhach (“victorious”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bohán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Bohán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bohan.
- Where is Bohán most common?
- Bohán is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 141 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bohán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,351 people named Bohán in 2010, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boh%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, “Bohán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.