Boga
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: any of species Leporinus obtusidens of ray-finned fish (characin)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɑɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 1.4M
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 8.8K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Boğa in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus.
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)
any of species Leporinus obtusidens of ray-finned fish (characin)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Boga is read(measured from records)
Boga is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Boga in Hindi.
- Spanish16%
any of species Leporinus obtusidens of ray-finned fish (characin)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
Haemulon vittatum, a species of grunt.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Boga in Turkish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #837 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Boğa | 42 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 946 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 946 | 1 in 1.4M | 946 | Boga | 77 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Boga | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 553 | 1 in 90K | 553 | Boga | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 234 | 1 in 14K | 234 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 122 | 1 in 45K | 122 | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Boğa | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Boga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ifu, pounded rice; may also be used figuratively in the sense of what is most significant, as the decorticated grains are the only important products of rice plants
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Portuguese, common designation, extended to different species of teleost fish from the Sparidae family of seabreams and porgies.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of bog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, expresses surprise or disdain; for the love of God
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)
- Imre Bogab. 1856ROHungarian teacher and pedagogical writer (1856-1924)
- Alajos Bogab. 1886ROHungarian Catholic priest
- Janka Bogab. 1886HUHungarian writer and pedagogue (1886-1963)
- Maruja Bogab. 1916ARArgentinian actor and journalist
- Olivér Bogab. 1930ROHungarian physician
- Anna Bogab. 1996weightlifter
- Jérémie Bogab. 1997FRIvorian-French footballer (born 1997)
- Hamadi BogaKEresearcher
- Mircea-Ioan BogaRORomanian politician from Cupșeni, Maramureș County
- José Antonio BogaDEresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #3,146 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 946 | #5,746 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 946 | #558 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 553 | #7,367 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 553 | #7,363 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 234 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 122 | #12,903 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Boga mean, and where does it come from?
- any of species Leporinus obtusidens of ray-finned fish (characin) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Boga?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɡə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Boga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Boga in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boğa.
- How common is the name Boga?
- In India, the national register counted 946 people named Boga, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Boga compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Boga is the 837th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bogaThe 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, “Boga” — the 837th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.