Bonéy
surname · Latin script
Bonéy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cornwall; Surrey. locative name from Bunny (Notts), recorded as Bonei, 1086 in Domesday Book.
- USUnited States1 in 88K(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 3.5K
- GDGrenada1 in 3.8K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,789 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boney in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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): Cornwall; Surrey. locative name from Bunny (Notts), recorded as Bonei, 1086 in Domesday Book.
Sources 2
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonéy 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 | 3,789 | 1 in 88K | 3.8K | Boney | 289 |
| GH Ghana | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Boney | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 189K | listed | Boney | 62 |
| AU Australia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Boney | 46 |
| IT Italy | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Boney | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Boney | 8 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 2 | — | 1 |
| GD Grenada | 30 | 1 in 3.8K | 30 | — | 3 |
| DM Dominica | 21 | 1 in 3.5K | 21 | — | — |
3,789 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; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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 Bonéy mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Cornwall; Surrey. locative name from Bunny (Notts), recorded as Bonei, 1086 in Domesday Book. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Bonéy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Bonéy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boney.
- Where is Bonéy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bonéy is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bonéy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,789 people named Bonéy in 2010, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bon%C3%A9yThe 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, “Bonéy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.