Bonia

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Bonia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 368K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 566K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

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)

250 people, 2010

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 368K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Bonia 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 Bonia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2501 in 1.3M278Bonia22
PL Poland1041 in 368K53——
BR Brazil251 in 8.5M25Bonia15
IN India181 in 74M18—7
CR Costa Rica91 in 566K9Bonia3
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7Bonia7
CL Chile≈3 est.≈1 in 7M1—12

250 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bonia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Bònia

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Boni︠a︡

  • Ukrainian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Бониа

37 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)

Bonia 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 Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of bonir

    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)

  • Adam Boniab. 1939PLPolish association football player (1939-2012)
  • Victoria Bonyab. 1979RUnot in their usual nameRussian TV host, model, and blogger

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)

Formalआदरणीया श्रीमती Bonia जी,Respected Bonia ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Bonia जी,Hi Bonia, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Bonia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020278#74,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010250#76,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000207#84,310
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202653—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—53#48,026
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202651—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—51#48,878
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25#168,311
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—18#85,076
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—15#4,084
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—9#5,951
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Bonia?
A machine transcription gives /bəniə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Bonia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 250 people named Bonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonia.
Where is Bonia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bonia is densest in Poland — about 1 in 368 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bonia?
In the United States, the national register counted 250 people named Bonia in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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, “Bonia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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