Bonnan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr bon ‘good’ and OE hand ‘hand’ (‘good hand’); first attested Peter Bonhand 1327 SR (Ess)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɔnɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bonnan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
6 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr bon ‘good’ and OE hand ‘hand’ (‘good hand’); first attested Peter Bonhand 1327 SR (Ess)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonnan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 6 | 1 in 1.8M | 6 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Bonnan | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | listed | Bonnan | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Bonnan | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Bonnan | 2 |
6 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Bonnan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Peter Bonhand 1327 SR (Ess). OFr bon ‘good’ and OE hand ‘hand’. ‘Good hand.’
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Scottish Gaelic, plural of bonn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, borner, délimiter
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #104,470 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Bonnan mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr bon ‘good’ and OE hand ‘hand’ (‘good hand’); first attested Peter Bonhand 1327 SR (Ess) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Bonnan?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔnɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bonnan have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 6 people named Bonnan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bonnan most common?
- Bonnan is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bonnan?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 6 people named Bonnan, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonnanThe 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, “Bonnan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.