Bonsér
surname · Latin script
Bonsér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: given either to a fine gentleman (perhaps ironically), or to someone who made frequent use of this term of address. The surname is now found chiefly in Notts.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 76K
- CACanada≈1 in 340Kfew records
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, 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 Bonser in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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)given either to a fine gentleman (perhaps ironically), or to someone who made frequent use of this term of address. The surname is now found chiefly in Notts. Bontemps Borisov 64 Cogns.: It.: B(u)ontempo. temporary shelter, typically a cowshed or a herdsman’s hut. The surname is still today more common in N Eng¬ land, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gael, as both (an). Dim.: It.: Bontempelli. Vars.: Boothe; Boothman.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bonsér is found
(measured from records)Bonsér 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 76K | listed | Bonser | 125 |
| US United States | 914 | 1 in 364K | 1K | Bonser | 225 |
| AU Australia | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Bonser | 80 |
| PH Philippines | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Bonser | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Bonser | 41 |
| SG Singapore | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Bonser | 3 |
| SE Sweden | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Bonsér | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 Bonsér mean, and where does it come from?
- given either to a fine gentleman (perhaps ironically), or to someone who made frequent use of this term of address. The surname is now found chiefly in Notts. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A dictionary of surnames and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bonsér?
- Mondonomo estimates about 917 people named Bonsér in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonser. After it come United States, Australia, Philippines and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bonsér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 914 people named Bonsér in 2010, about 1 in 364 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bons%C3%A9rThe 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, “Bonsér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.