Bonamy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Corsican family, incl
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bonamy is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Corsican family, incl. Napoleon
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bonamy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Bonaparte [Buonaparte]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Pierre-Nicolas Bonamyb. 1694FRFrench romanist (1694–1770)
- François Bonamyb. 1710FRFrench botanist and physician (1710-1786)
- Charles Auguste Jean Baptiste Louis Joseph Bonamyb. 1764FRFrench general (1764–1830)
- Eugène Charles Bonamyb. 1808FRFrench physician
- Édouard-Auguste Bonamyb. 1828FRFrench lawyer
- Armand-Joseph Bonamyb. 1885FRFrench painter
- Raoul Bonamyb. 1905FRFrench rugby union player (1905-1993)
- Olivia Bonamyb. 1972FRFrench actress
- James Bonamyb. 1972USAmerican musician
- Henri Bonamyb. 1979DEFrench pianist and conductor
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bonamy come from?
- Corsican family, incl. Napoleon Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What does the name Bonamy mean?
- Recorded meaning: Corsican family, incl.
- In which country does Bonamy have the most bearers?
- Bonamy is most frequently recorded in France.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bonamy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.