Boevé
surname · Latin script
Boevé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Dutch Boeve.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.8Kas Bove
- ITItaly≈1 in 9.6Kas Bove
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 Boevé 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 named Bove, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bove in US United States, ES Spain, IT Italy and 3 more, Boeve in NL Netherlands and Bové in FR France.
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)
Borrowed from Dutch Boeve.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boevé 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | listed | Bove | 70 |
| US United States | — | 3,847as Bove | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Bove | 337 |
| NL Netherlands | #569 | 1,381 | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Boeve | 55 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 160 | Bové | 51 |
| ES Spain | — | 883as Bove | 1 in 57K | 883 | Bove | 73 |
| UY Uruguay | #935 | 712as Bove | 1 in 4.8K | 712 | Bove | 30 |
| JM Jamaica | #969 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Bove | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Bove | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 167 | #12,324 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Boevé mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Dutch Boeve. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Boevé have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Bove in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boevé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boevé is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boevé?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,381 people named Boevé in 2007, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Boevé compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Boevé is the 569th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boev%C3%A9The 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, “Boevé” — the 569th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.