Boï
surname · Latin script
Boï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Bove.
- BEBelgium1 in 83K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 336K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
657 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Variante di Bove
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boï 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 657 | 1 in 2M | 657 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 177 | 1 in 1.9M | 257 | — | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 152 | 1 in 1.4M | 152 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 142 | 1 in 83K | 142 | — | 16 |
| FR France | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 74 | Boï | 139 |
| CH Switzerland | 25 | 1 in 336K | 25 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 23 | 1 in 751K | 66 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 16 | — | — |
657 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)Boï is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, inflection of boiar:
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
- What does the name Boï mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Bove Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Boï have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 657 people named Boï, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boï is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boï?
- In India, the national register counted 657 people named Boï, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bo%C3%AFThe 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, “Boï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.