Bonsu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bənsu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bonsu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common surname.
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K
- USUnited States1 in 361K
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83 (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Marshall Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Bonsu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #42 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 44K | Bonsu | 77 |
| MH Marshall Islands | #17 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 83 | — | Bonsu | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Bonsu | 5 |
| US United States | — | 921 | 1 in 361K | 1.3K | Bonsu | 208 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Bonsu | 111 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 120 | 1 in 144K | 120 | Bonsu | 24 |
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: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Bonsu 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 zlm, youngest-born; minimus (or minima); familiar name for youngest of a family
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)
- Osei Bonsub. 1900GHGhanaian sculptor of Ashanti carving
- Osei Bunsub. 1929GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian politician
- Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsub. 1957GHGhanaian Supreme Court Judge
- Wanlov the Kubolorb. 1980ROnot in their usual nameGhanaian-Romanian musician
- Osei Bonsub. 1982GHGhanaian footballer
- Deborah Owusu-Bonsub. 1984GHGhanaian academic, television presenter and model
- Josephine Bonsub. 1999DEGerman association football player
- Kwaku Bonsu Oseib. 2000GHGhanian footballer
- Benjamin BonsuGHGhanian space engineer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 44K | #84 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #19,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 921 | #26,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 545 | #38,198 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 120 | #16,410 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bonsu?
- A machine transcription gives /bənsu/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bonsu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Bonsu in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonsu.
- How common is the name Bonsu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 921 people named Bonsu in 2010, about 1 in 361 thousand residents.
- How common is Bonsu compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Bonsu is the 42nd most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bonsu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonsuThe 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, “Bonsu” — the 42nd most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.