Bonàs
surname · Latin script
Bonàs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): NR Yorks. see Bowness .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 220K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 340Kfew records
- HRCroatia1 in 423K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, 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 Bonas in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 3 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)Main GB Location (1881): NR Yorks. see Bowness .
Cited for this meaning 2
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bonàs is found
(measured from records)Bonàs 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 221K | listed | Bonas | 85 |
| US United States | 283 | 1 in 1.2M | 371 | Bonas | 142 |
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Bonas | 35 |
| KE Kenya | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Bonas | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 137 | 1 in 1.5M | 137 | Bonas | 30 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Bonas | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 10 | 1 in 423K | 11 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)- Sílvia Bonàs-Guarchb. 2000ESresearcher
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bonàs mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): NR Yorks. see Bowness . Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bonàs?
- Mondonomo estimates about 313 people named Bonàs in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonas. After it come United States, Germany, Kenya and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bonàs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 283 people named Bonàs in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bon%C3%A0sThe 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, “Bonàs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.