Bonato

surname · Latin script

Meaning: de Bono com suf. sing

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

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

Bonato is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 24K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 70K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 19K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

8,790 people

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

de Bono com suf. sing. -ato.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bonato 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 Bonato is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8,7901 in 24K8.8KBonato104
IT Italy≈3,200 est.≈1 in 19KlistedBonato65
FR France≈700 est.≈1 in 97K88—2
AR Argentina6511 in 70K651Bonato41
US United States2611 in 1.3M282Bonato72
CH Switzerland1511 in 56K151Bonato14
UY Uruguay641 in 53K64Bonato8

8,790 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Bonato 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 Italian, Variante di Boni

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

1700180019002000Giuseppe Antonio Bonato, b. 1753Pietro Bonato, b. 1765Victor Bonato, b. 1934Jean-Claude Bonato, b. 1946Mauro Bonato, b. 1959Paola Bonato, b. 1961Giovanni Bonato, b. 1961Yann Bonato, b. 1972Yoann Bonato, b. 1983Patrick Bonato, b. 1983

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)

FormalPrezado(a) Bonato,Dear Bonato, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Bonato,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Bonato
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—8.8K#1,451
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—651—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020282#73,993
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010261#74,141
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000234#76,465
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961159—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024151#7,915
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199188—

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name Bonato come from?
de Bono com suf. sing. -ato. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Bonato?
A machine transcription gives /bunatu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Bonato mean?
Recorded meaning: de Bono com suf. sing.
In which country does Bonato have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Bonato, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonato.
How common is the name Bonato?
In Brazil, the national register counted 8,790 people named Bonato, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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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, “Bonato”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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