Bogue
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bəwɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bogue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 94K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 105K
- IEIreland≈1 in 43K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bogue 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Bogue | 2 |
| US United States | 3,521 | 1 in 94K | 3.5K | Bogue | 318 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Bogue | 74 |
| EG Egypt | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Bogue | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Bogue | 52 |
| IE Ireland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Bogue | 29 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Bogue | 17 |
| PS Palestine | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Bogue | 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. 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)
Bogue is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a strait in the Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and the South China Sea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, inflection of bogar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, chestnut burr
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)
- David Bogueb. 1812GBpublisher and bookseller (died 1856)
- George Marquis Bogueb. 1842USAmerican politician
- Virgil Bogueb. 1846USAmerican civil engineer
- Lauretta Caroline Maria Luffmanb. 1846AUnot in their usual nameEnglish-born Australian writer and women's activist
- Zelma Bogueb. 1880USAmerican politician
- George Bogueb. 1906USAmerican football player (1906-1972)
- Andrew Wendell Bogueb. 1919USUnited States federal judge
- Glenn Bogueb. 1955CACanadian sprinter
- Alejandra Bogueb. 1965MXMexican actress, comedian, TV host, and producer
- Zachary Bogueb. 1975USManaging Partner, Data Collective, USA
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,660 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,344 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bogue mean, and where does it come from?
- A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bogue?
- A machine transcription gives /bəwɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bogue have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Bogue in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bogue.
- How common is the name Bogue?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,521 people named Bogue in 2010, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bogueThe 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, “Bogue”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.