Bonaventure
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Latin bona ventura, meaning 'good fortune' or 'good coming'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɔnavɑ̃tyʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bonaventure is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- BEBelgium
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)
from Fr bon aventure, ‘good fortune’, a phrase name; first attested Emma Boneauenture c1215 Clerkenwell
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bonaventure is read(measured from records)
Bonaventure is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French45%
From Latin bona ventura, meaning 'good fortune' or 'good coming'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
a regional county municipality of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
du nom italien Bonaventura, de bona ‘bonne’ et ventura ‘chance, fortune’
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English42%
from Fr bon aventure, ‘good fortune’, a phrase name; first attested Emma Boneauenture c1215 Clerkenwell
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Source of Bona; earliest cited 18th c. parish records (Llanpumsaint).
as a nameWelsh Surnames
nickname from the French phrase bon aventure ‘good fortune’. It was used as a given name in the 17th century.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- André Bonaventureb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Chanelle Bonaventureb. 1991BEBelgian politician
- Ysaline Bonaventureb. 1994BEBelgian tennis player (born 1994)
- Gustavo BonaventureUSresearcher
- Richard BonaventureGBLondon goldsmith
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)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 619 | #38,482 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 586 | #37,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 521 | #39,678 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 278 | #5,988 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 248 | #7,086 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 191 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 174 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 171 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 143 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 141 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 139 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 139 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bonaventure come from?
- from Fr bon aventure, ‘good fortune’, a phrase name; first attested Emma Boneauenture c1215 Clerkenwell Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What does the name Bonaventure mean?
- In French, From Latin bona ventura, meaning 'good fortune' or 'good coming'.
- What are other forms of the name Bonaventure?
- In the etymology graph, Boaventura and Bonaventura are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Bonaventure?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔnavɑ̃tyʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bonaventure have the most bearers?
- Bonaventure is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Bonaventure”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.