Bonafède
surname · Latin script
Bonafède is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A nickname from bona (“good”) + fede (“faith”).
- ITItaly≈1 in 19Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 139K
- NONorway1 in 228K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, 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 Bonafede in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 2 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)A nickname from bona (“good”) + fede (“faith”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bonafède is found
(measured from records)Bonafède 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Bonafede | 23 |
| US United States | 584 | 1 in 570K | 584 | Bonafede | 165 |
| AR Argentina | 328 | 1 in 139K | 328 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Bonafede | 24 |
| IN India | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Bonafede | 1 |
| OM Oman | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Bonafede | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 32 | 1 in 263K | 32 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 3 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bonafède mean, and where does it come from?
- A nickname from bona (“good”) + fede (“faith”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bonafède?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Bonafède in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonafede. After it come United States, Argentina, United Kingdom and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bonafède?
- In the United States, the national register counted 584 people named Bonafède in 2010, about 1 in 570 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonaf%C3%A8deThe 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, “Bonafède”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.