Bonz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Bonz/Bunz(e), related to BOND
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bonz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.9M(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 752K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 946K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bonz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 752K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from Bonz/Bunz(e), related to BOND
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Bonz | 70 |
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 752K | — | Bonz | 31 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Bonz | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Bonz | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Bonz | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Bonz | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3as Boenz | 1 in 1.7M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Bonz 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 Czech, the act of telling on somebody
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, bonze, a Buddhist priest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, BONZ bonzi, s. m. Preot sau călugăr budist. ♦ (Ir.) Personaj de vază, pretențios, dintr-un partid sau o organizație social-democrată.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Jochen Bonzb. 1969DEGerman cultural historian (b. 1969)
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #311,888 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Bonz mean, and where does it come from?
- from Bonz/Bunz(e), related to BOND Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Bonz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 people named Bonz in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonz.
- How common is the name Bonz?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Bonz in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bonz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonzThe 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, “Bonz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.