Bologña
surname · Latin script
Bologña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic. Doublet of Boulogne.
- UYUruguay1 in 12K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 53K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 73K
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 Bologña 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,827 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bolonia in AR Argentina, PH Philippines, UY Uruguay and Bolonha in BR Brazil, 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)- ItalianBologna(measured from records)
- LatinBonōnia(measured from records)
From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic. Doublet of Boulogne.
Cited for this meaning 4
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bologña is found
(measured from records)Bologña 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 | 1,827 | 1 in 182K | 1.8K | Bolonha | 93 |
| BR Brazil | 1,311as Bolonha | 1 in 161K | 1.3K | Bolonha | 64 |
| AR Argentina | 856 | 1 in 53K | 856 | Bolonia | 52 |
| PH Philippines | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Bolonia | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 289 | 1 in 12K | 289 | Bolonia | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 115 | 1 in 73K | 115 | — | 5 |
1,827 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling bologna. 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Bologña mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian Bologna, from Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic. Doublet of Boulogne. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bologña?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Bologña, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolonha. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Philippines and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bologña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bologña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bologña?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,827 people named Bologña in 2010, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolog%C3%B1aThe 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, “Bologña”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.