Bonano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante de Bonanno ou de Bono com suf
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bonano/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Bonano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 270Kfew records
- ESSpain1 in 472K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
699 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variante de Bonanno ou de Bono com suf. sing. -ano.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where the surname Bonano is found
(measured from records)Bonano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 699 | 1 in 476K | 739 | Bonano | 170 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Bonano | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #283 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Bonano | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 223 | 1 in 949K | 223 | Bonano | 40 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Bonano | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Bonano | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Bonano | 1 |
699 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Roberto Bonanob. 1970ARArgentine footballer
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bonano?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /bonano/; in Portuguese /bunɐnu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Bonano mean?
- Recorded meaning: variante de Bonanno ou de Bono com suf.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bonano?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 699 people named Bonano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonano. After it come Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bonano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 699 people named Bonano in 2010, about 1 in 476 thousand residents.
- How common is Bonano compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Bonano is the 283rd most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonanoThe 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, “Bonano” — the 283rd most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.