Bóth

surname · Latin script

Bóth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 9K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 55K
  • BRBrazil1 in 69K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,071 people

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Both in NL Netherlands, US United States, SK Slovakia and 1 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)

Derivation of Bóth: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bóth
  1. Middle Englishbothe(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbā(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*bai(measured from records)
  4. Old Englishbā(measured from records)

From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen.

Sources 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bóth 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.

Where Bóth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—3,0711 in 69K3.1K——
NL Netherlands—1,9181 in 9K1.9KBoth4
US United States—8631 in 385K885Both7
CH Switzerland—1531 in 55K153——
CZ Czechia—891 in 120K89Both20
NO Norway—561 in 98K56—2
FI Finland—491 in 114K49——
SK Slovakia#980———Both32

3,071 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bóth is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Romania, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Both

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bóth
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—3#156,733

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bóth mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
In which country does Bóth have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Bóth, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bóth most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bóth is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 9.0 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bóth?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,071 people named Bóth, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
How common is Bóth compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Bóth is the 980th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bóth” — the 980th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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