BonBon
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
BonBon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In English, recorded as A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 54K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 170K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How BonBon is read(measured from records)
BonBon is one spelling over 3 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.
- English50%
A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses BonBon in Spanish.
- French17%
sweet, candy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
BonBon 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)
BonBon is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given names Bonito or Bonifacio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a praline, a small chocolate-covered candy/sweet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, obsolete form of bomboană
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, sweet (confectionery)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Louly Bonbonb. 1962FRFrench politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 12 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #109,849 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name BonBon mean, and where does it come from?
- A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does BonBon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named BonBon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled BonBon.
- How common is the name BonBon?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4 people named BonBon in 2008, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about BonBon?
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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, “BonBon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.