Bonin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bonin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 82K
- LALaos≈1 in 7.9K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
How Bonin is read(measured from records)
Bonin is one spelling over 4 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.
- English42%
Islands, Pacific
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French35%
soit de (Le) Bonin, nom de plusieurs localités en France, ou un dérivé de bon
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Portuguese8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bonin in Portuguese.
- Spanish5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bonin in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bonin 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Bonin | 2 |
| FR France | #660 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 881 | Bonin | 261 |
| US United States | — | 4,034 | 1 in 82K | 4K | Bonin | 179 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,619 | 1 in 59K | 3.6K | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Bonin | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Bonin | 2 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Bonin | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 165 | 1 in 21K | 165 | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Bonin 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 German, Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Italian, forma dialetal vêneta, redução de Bonino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, from a place name (multiple ON)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Jeanne Bonin-Pissarrob. 1881FRFrench painter
- Edward J. Boninb. 1904USAmerican politician
- Madeleine Boninb. 1919FRFrench film editor
- Marcel Boninb. 1931CACanadian ice hockey player (1931–2025)
- Raymond Boninb. 1942CACanadian politician
- William Boninb. 1947USAmerican serial killer (1947–1996)
- Greg Boninb. 1955USbaseball umpire
- Celeste Boninb. 1986USAmerican bodybuilder, model, and professional wrestler
- Charlotte Boninb. 1987ITItalian triathlete
- Paolo Conte Boninb. 2002ITItalian swimmer
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 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,529 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6K | #2,929 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 954 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 891 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 881 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 829 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Bonin mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname; in Polish context from a settlement name, with possible competition from a patronymic origin. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Bonin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Bonin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonin.
- How common is the name Bonin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,034 people named Bonin in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Bonin compared with other names?
- In France, Bonin is the 660th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boninThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bonin” — the 660th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.