Books

org · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Books is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
102 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Books counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Books is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1.3KBooks102
AU Australia——Books19
GB United Kingdom——Books24
CA Canada——Books11
GH Ghana——Books4

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 2000. 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)

Books is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Boòks

34 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Books
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,421
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,200
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#21,862
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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

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Books is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled books.

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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, “Books”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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