Bonao

loc · Latin script

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

Bonao is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.6M(inferred from the name graph)
  • GQEquatorial Guinea≈1 in 3.2K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 114K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈960 people, est.

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Equatorial Guinea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Boñao in ES Spain, GQ Equatorial Guinea and Bon-Ao in PH Philippines.

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)

Bonao 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 Bonao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈960 est.≈1 in 114KBon-Ao18
GQ Equatorial Guinea#203≈260 est.≈1 in 3.2KBoñao2
US United States—≈10 est.≈1 in 33MBonao12
DO Dominican Republic—≈7 est.≈1 in 1.6MBonao3
ES Spain—≈7 est.≈1 in 7.5MBoñao5

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.

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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bonäo

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bonao 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 Latvian, pilsēta Dominikānas Republikā, 72800 iedzīvotāju (2002. g.)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bonao under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bonao have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 961 people named Bonao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Bon-Ao.
How common is the name Bonao?
Mondonomo estimates about 960 people in the Philippines have Bonao as their first surname, about 1 in 114 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
How common is Bonao compared with other names?
In Equatorial Guinea, Bonao is the 203rd most common surname of 237 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, “Bonao” — the 203rd most common surname in Equatorial Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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