Bovell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Norman
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bəvəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bovell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 505K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 1.8K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 39K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
659 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Norman.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bovell 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 | — | 659 | 1 in 505K | 659 | Bovell | 190 |
| GY Guyana | #165 | 408 | 1 in 1.8K | 408 | Bovell | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Bovell | 92 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Bovell | 71 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 510K | — | Bovell | 49 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Bovell | 3 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Bovell | 11 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
659 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John William Bovellb. 1780plantation owner in Demarara
- James Bovellb. 1817CACanadian physician
- Emily Bovellb. 1841GBScottish physician, 1841–1885
- Stewart Bovellb. 1906AUAustralian politician
- Henry Bovellb. 1936AUcricketer
- Dennis Bovellb. 1953BBBarbadian-British reggae musician
- Andrew Bovellb. 1962AUAustralian writer, screenwriter
- George Bovellb. 1983TTswimmer
- Nicholas Bovellb. 1986TTswimmer
- Kalena BovellUSAmerican conductor
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 659 | #34,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 634 | #37,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 574 | #36,716 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 408 | #271 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| 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
- What does the name Bovell mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Norman. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bovell?
- A machine transcription gives /bəvəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bovell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 659 people named Bovell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bovell.
- Where is Bovell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bovell is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bovell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 659 people named Bovell in 2010, about 1 in 505 thousand residents.
- How common is Bovell compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Bovell is the 165th most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bovellThe 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, “Bovell” — the 165th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.