Bonal
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɔnal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bonal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 79K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
637 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Bonal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 637 | 1 in 79K | 637 | Bonal | 81 |
| IN India | 377 | 1 in 3.5M | 377 | Bonal | 2 |
| US United States | 119 | 1 in 2.8M | 122 | Bonal | 52 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | Bonal | 21 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
637 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Bonal 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 msk, to beat, whip (as a dog)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In msk, to beat (with a stick)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In msk, to beat, to whip
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Raymond Bonalb. 1600FRFrench priest
- Joan Bonalb. 1769EScatholic priest
- Auguste Bonalb. 1898FRFrench industrialist
- Denise Bonalb. 1921FRFrench actress 'playwright' writer
- Eliane Bonalb. 1922FRFrench Righteous Among the Nations
- Joaquím Bonal de Falgàsb. 1933ESCatalan pharmacist (1933–2005)
- Gérard Bonalb. 1941FRFrench writer (1941–2022)
- Richard Bonalb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Séverine Bonalb. 1972FRFrench archer
- Diego Sanjuanbenito Bonalb. 1978ESSpanish politician
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 637 | #6,566 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 637 | #6,562 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 377 | #11,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 122 | #140,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #81,780 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #27,490 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #73,780 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bonal?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔnal/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bonal have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 637 people named Bonal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonal.
- Where is Bonal most common?
- Bonal is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bonal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 637 people named Bonal, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonalThe 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, “Bonal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.