Bonne
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Variant from bon, “good”; here said to imply a good-natured person
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bonne is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 866K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 10K
- FRFrance≈1 in 29K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boënne in BE Belgium and Bonné in NL Netherlands.
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)
Variant from bon, “good”; here said to imply a good-natured person.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 261 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 1,138 | 1 in 10K | 1.1K | Boënne | 43 |
| US United States | 384 | 1 in 866K | 455 | Bonne | 164 |
| BR Brazil | 291 | 1 in 728K | 291 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 217 | 1 in 80K | 814 | Bonné | 37 |
| DK Denmark | 188 | 1 in 31K | 188 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Bonne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A French nursemaid.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from Romance bonna 'border'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ) Bonno; TBono: männl. Vom. friesischer Herkunft (zu einem german.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Swedish, eye dialect spelling of bonde (“farmer”), representing Southern Swedish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdr, tall tree with dense branches and fruit that resembles a grape
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Bonne de Luxembourgb. 1315FRwife of King John II of France
- Bonne of Bourbonb. 1341FRCountess of Savoy
- Bonne d'Armagnacb. 1395FRdaughter of Bernard d'Armagnac, wife of Charles d'Orléans
- Bonne of Artoisb. 1396FRFrench noble (1396-1425)
- Bona di Savoiab. 1449ITnot in their usual nameDuchess of Milan
- Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefondsb. 1698FRRoman Catholic archbishop (1698-1746)
- Rigobert Bonneb. 1727FRFrench cartographer (1727-1794)
- Macauley Bonneb. 1995GBprofessional British footballer (born 1995)
- Bonne of BerryFRCountess of Savoy
- Bonne of Savoyca.1272 - v.1300
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 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.1K | #1,123 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.1K | #1,145 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 420 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 417 | #53,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 384 | #53,802 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 383 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 356 | #54,269 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 339 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 330 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 324 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 295 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 291 | #27,099 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Bonne mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant from bon, “good”; here said to imply a good-natured person. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- In which country does Bonne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Bonne in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bonne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bonne is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bonne?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,138 people named Bonne in 2008, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bonne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonneThe 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, “Bonne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.