Boïs
surname · Latin script
Boïs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Bois.
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 44Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 147K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, 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 Bois in FR France, US United States, CA Canada 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)Borrowed from French Bois.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boïs 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 871 | Bois | 289 |
| CA Canada | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Bois | 85 |
| US United States | 802 | 1 in 415K | 834 | Bois | 162 |
| BR Brazil | 429 | 1 in 494K | 429 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 176K | listed | — | 32 |
| SN Senegal | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Bois | 6 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Bois | 6 |
| RE Réunion | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bois | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Boïs is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, second-person singular present subjunctive of boiar
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boïs mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Bois. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Boïs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Boïs in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bois.
- How common is the name Boïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 802 people named Boïs in 2010, about 1 in 415 thousand 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/bo%C3%AFsThe 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, “Boïs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.