Boen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bˈun/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated · uncertain
Boen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 34K(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 53Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 220K
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 Boen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
1,622 named Bon
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Boen in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bon in US United States.
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.
How to pronounce Boen
- Indonesian:/bˈun/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Boen is found
(measured from records)Boen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,622as Bon | 1 in 131K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,291as Bon | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Boen | 56 |
| US United States | 1,260 | 1 in 264K | 1.3K | Bon | 250 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Boen | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 756as Bon | 1 in 4.5K | 756 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 345 | 1 in 34K | 364 | Boen | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | 184as Bon | 1 in 46K | 184 | — | 25 |
| SI Slovenia | 93as Bon | 1 in 23K | 93 | — | 2 |
1,622 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Boen 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 nds, to build; to construct
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Haldor Boenb. 1851NOAmerican politician (1851-1912)
- Earl Boenb. 1941USAmerican actor (1941–2023)
- Bruno Boenb. 1956BEBelgian creator
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Boen?
- In Indonesian /bˈun/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Boen?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Bon, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Netherlands, United States, Kenya and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Boen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boen is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,260 people named Boen in 2010, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boenThe 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, “Boen” — ranked 5921st in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.