Bontá

surname · Latin script

Bontá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 129K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 130K
  • BRBrazil1 in 330K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

642 people

Record sources
63 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 129K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bonta in BR Brazil, IN India, US United States and 2 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Bontá 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 Bontá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil6421 in 330K642Bonta24
IN India5951 in 2.2M595Bonta3
US United States5121 in 650K593Bonta63
AR Argentina911 in 500K91Bonta28
CH Switzerland651 in 129K65—2
UY Uruguay261 in 130K26Bonta3

642 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Bontá is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bonta, Bontà, Bonţa, Bonta', Bontã

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Bontà, Bonta, Bonta'

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Bonța, Bonta, Bontà, Bonţa

  • Thai given name50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written บุญตา, บุญโต, Boonta, Bunta, บุญถา

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Romania, Nigeria

    Also written Bonta

  • Hindi surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Bonta, Banti, Bontà, బొంతా, Bamti

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Romania

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Bonta, Bontà

2 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bontá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Bontá have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 642 people named Bontá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonta.
Where is Bontá most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bontá is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 129 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bontá?
In Brazil, the national register counted 642 people named Bontá, about 1 in 330 thousand 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, “Bontá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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