Bonn
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname; derived from a place name (SiedlungsN) with adjectival suffix -(i)sch
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bonn is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- PLPoland
- ATAustria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname; derived from a place name (SiedlungsN) with adjectival suffix -(i)sch. Bearer count 1206.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | — | Bonn | 114 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | Bonn | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2.3K | Bonn | 265 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Bonn | 47 |
| AT Austria | — | — | Bonn | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 280 | Bonn | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 226 | — | 4 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Bonn is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Bonn (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River; the former capital of West Germany and (until 1999) seat of government of unified Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, toponymischer Herkunftsname: nach der Stadt Bonn; aus einem Ort abgeleitet.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname zu Bonn; Belegzahl 3 Types/1206 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In English, former capital, W. Germany
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, pronunciation spelling of born (“children”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Franz Bonnb. 1830DEGerman politician (1830-1894)
- Ferdinand Bonnb. 1861DEGerman actor (1861-1933)
- Issy Bonnb. 1903GBBritish actor
- Gisela Bonnb. 1909DEGerman journalist (1909-1996)
- Herb Bonnb. 1916USAmerican basketball player (1916-1943)
- Skeeter Bonnb. 1923USAmerican musician (1923–1994)
- Heinz Bonnb. 1947DEGerman association football player (1947-1991)
- James Bonnb. 1959USAmerican pornographic actor
- Tobias Bonnb. 1964DEGerman actor
- Tim Krugerb. 1981DEnot in their usual nameGerman pornographic actor and director
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89 | #50,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31 | #50,309 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #15,512 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #16,199 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Bonn come from?
- Toponymic surname; derived from a place name (SiedlungsN) with adjectival suffix -(i)sch. Bearer count 1206. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What does the name Bonn mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname; derived from a place name (SiedlungsN) with adjectival suffix -(i)sch.
- In which country does Bonn have the most bearers?
- Bonn is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled bonn.
What do you want to know about Bonn?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonnThe 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, “Bonn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.