Boğa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boğa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bull.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 1.4M
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 8.8K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Boga in IN India, ES Spain, TZ Tanzania.
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)
bull
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boğa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #837 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Boğa | 42 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 946 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 946 | 1 in 1.4M | 946 | Boga | 77 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Boga | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 553 | 1 in 90K | 553 | Boga | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 234 | 1 in 14K | 234 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 122 | 1 in 45K | 122 | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Boğa | 5 |
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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Boğa 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 Turkish, 1. Damızlık erkek sığır. 2. Bal yapan dişi arı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mehmet BoğaTRTurkish researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boğa mean, and where does it come from?
- bull Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Boğa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Boğa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boğa.
- How common is the name Boğa?
- In India, the national register counted 946 people named Boğa, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Boğa compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Boğa is the 837th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boğa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bo%C4%9FaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Boğa” — the 837th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.