In the world, Boon (Bon 
, Boon , بون 
, among others...) is a common unisex given name. The first name Boon is characteristic of Macao, where it is quite a common unisex name, Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, and Singapore, where it is quite a rare dominantly male, but infrequently feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Egypt, Indonesia, and Algeria. More frequently, Boon is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Bon, Boon | Malaysia, Netherlands, France, Philippines, Myanmar |
| بون | Egypt, Algeria, Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia |
| Боон, Бун | Ukraine, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan |
| בון | Israel |
Boon is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Bon Clay , the fictional character from One Piece.
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ratliff boon American politician (1781-1844), US (b. 1781) |
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dickie boon Canadian ice hockey defenceman (1878-1961), CA (b. 1878) |
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| toh ah boon Malaysian politician, MY (b. 1860) |
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| chan keng boon badminton player, SG (b. 1915) |
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| sim kee boon civil servant, SG (b. 1929) |
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| ong pang boon Singaporean politician, MY (b. 1929) |
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| wee toon boon former politician, SG (b. 1929) |
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| ong teong boon badminton player, MY (b. 1953) |
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| b. boon (b. 1945) |
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| tan chan boon Singapourian composer and musicologist, SG (b. 1965) |
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| lim kim boon Member of the 1998 Singapore Everest Team, which was the first Singapore team to successfully ascend Mount Everest (b. 1965) |
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| bas boon Mixed Martial Arts entrepreneur (b. 1967) |
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| sander boon Dutch politician, NL |
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| soon loh boon First president of the Singapore Chinese Middle School Students’ Union who was arrested on 1 October 1956 under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance and released in 1964 for his role in student politics in the 1950s |
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| siaw shi boon researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-9772-2971 |
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