Bolivar
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: boisteux, from boiste box (L buxus, Gk pyxis container, from pyxos box wood, of which boxes used to be made)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bolivar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 2.4K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.4K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
14,134 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bolibar in US United States, NI Nicaragua and Bolívar in PA Panama.
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)
boisteux, from boiste box (L buxus, Gk pyxis container, from pyxos box wood, of which boxes used to be made). The nickname arose because the limp was thought to be caused by the leg fitting incorrectly into the ‘box’ of the pelvis. from a place in the province of Biscay, so called from Bas¬ que bolu mill + ibat meadow, riverbank. Vars.: Boiteau, Boitel.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bolivar is read(measured from records)
Bolivar is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish9.4%
boisteux, from boiste box (L buxus, Gk pyxis container, from pyxos box wood, of which boxes used to be made). The nickname arose because the limp was thought to be caused by the leg fitting incorrectly into the ‘box’ of the pelvis. from a place in the province of Biscay, so called from Bas¬ que bolu mill + ibat meadow, riverbank. Vars.: Boiteau, Boitel.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English7.0%
Simon, S. American leader; S.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
American pi name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bolivar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 14,134 | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Bolivar | 63 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Bolivar | 39 |
| PA Panama | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 7 | Bolívar | 45 |
| BR Brazil | 1,522 | 1 in 139K | 1.9K | Bolivar | 76 |
| US United States | 1,440 | 1 in 231K | 3.4K | Bolibar | 273 |
| UY Uruguay | 229 | 1 in 15K | 251 | — | 17 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Bolibar | 7 |
14,134 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bolivar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Le bolivar ne désigne pas seulement l’unité monétaire du Vénézuela mais aussi un type de chapeau haut-de-forme évasé et à larges bords qui fut à la mode parmi les libéraux français vers 1820. Rien de plus naturel puisque, ce faisant, ils rendaient hommage à Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), un des grands libertadores d’Amérique latine qui portait ce type de chapeau. Voir Boliviano .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Croatian, južnoamerički vojnik i državnik; vodio oslobodilački rat protiv španjolske kolonijalne vlasti, prvi predsjednik Kolumbije i Gornjeg Perua (Bolivije); autokrat
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Orlando B. Willcoxb. 1823USnot in their usual nameUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1823–1907)
- Julius Curtisb. 1825USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Simon Bolivar Bucknerb. 1886USAmerican lieutenant general during World War II (1886–1945)
- Bolívar Pagánb. 1897USPuerto Rican politician (1897-1961)
- Bolívar Urrutia Parrillab. 1918PAPresident of Panama
- Bolívar Echeverríab. 1941MXEcuatorian academic (1941–2010)
- Bolívar Modualdo Guedesb. 1954BRBrazilian association football player
- Marcelino Bolivarb. 1964VEVenezuelan boxer
- Bolívar Gómezb. 1977ECEcuadorian footballer
- Bolivar Espinosab. 1996PAPanamanian cyclist
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)
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 14K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 14K | #157 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.9K | #6,051 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.9K | #2,409 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,192 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,584 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 229 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 227 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 23 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 13 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Bolivar mean, and where does it come from?
- boisteux, from boiste box (L buxus, Gk pyxis container, from pyxos box wood, of which boxes used to be made). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Bolivar have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Bolivar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolivar.
- Where is Bolivar most common?
- Bolivar is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bolivar?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 14,134 people named Bolivar in 2024, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolivarThe 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, “Bolivar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.