Boena

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Boena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 195Kas Bona(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 26Kas Bona
  • UYUruguay1 in 45Kas Bona

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Boena 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

8,250 named Bona

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
258 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil, as Bona

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BonaLatin(measured from records)
보나Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled Bona in US United States, CH Switzerland.

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)

Boena 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 Boena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8,250as Bona1 in 26K8.3K—3
US United States1,709as Bona1 in 195K1.7KBona258
ES Spain826as Bona1 in 61K826—27
PL Poland697as Bona1 in 55K354—4
AR Argentina543as Bona1 in 84K543—2
CH Switzerland108as Bona1 in 78K108Bona19
UY Uruguay76as Bona1 in 45K76——

8,250 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

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

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Burkina Faso

    Also written Boéna

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Boena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—138#49,506

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Boena have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Bona, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Boena most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Boena itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Brazil's: the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people named Bona.
How common is the name Boena?
In Brazil, the national register counted 8,250 people named Bona, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.

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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, “Boena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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