Bonales

surname · Latin script

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

/bonales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bonales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 170K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M
  • RERéunion≈1 in 5.1K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Bonales 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 Bonales is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 88K—Bonales1
PH Philippines—≈640 est.≈1 in 170K—Bonales28
US United States—2701 in 1.2M270Bonales89
ES Spain—1701 in 294K170Bonales43
RE Réunion#455≈150 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Bonales1
SV El Salvador—≈12 est.≈1 in 525K—Bonales1

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

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

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia

    Also written Boñales

29 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Bonales,Dear Bonales, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Bonales,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Bonales
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010270#72,105
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020260#79,118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000211#83,004
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—170#18,632
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—170#18,614
US United Stateswru 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 Bonales?
A machine transcription gives /bonales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Bonales have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Bonales in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonales.
How common is the name Bonales?
In the United States, the national register counted 270 people named Bonales in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Bonales compared with other names?
In Réunion, Bonales is the 455th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bonales” — the 455th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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