Bukong
loc · Latin script
Bukong is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4Mas Bokong(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 1.7Mfew recordsas Bookong
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bukong itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈43 named Bookong, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Bokong
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bookong in TH Thailand and Bokong in PH Philippines.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bukong 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | register #325,376 | Bookong | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 6as Bokong | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Bokong | 1 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Bukong is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, unhusked coconut shell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, joint (of bones)
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
- In which country does Bukong have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 people named Bookong in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bukong most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Bukong itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people named Bokong.
- How common is the name Bukong?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Bokong in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bukong?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bukongThe 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, “Bukong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.