Bovin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma dialetal apocopada de Bovino
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈboʊvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bovin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 175Kas Бовин(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 34K
- DKDenmark1 in 49K
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 Bovin 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 named Бовин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Бовин in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Бовін in UA Ukraine.
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)
forma dialetal apocopada de Bovino
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bovin 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Bovin 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 German, from French Bouvain
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, Variante di Bove
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Romanian, BOVÍN, -Ă, bovini, -e, adj., s. f. 1. Adj. De bou; din familia sau din speța boului. 2. S. f. (la pl.) Subfamilie din familia rumegătoarelor, având ca tip boul; (și la sg.) animal care face parte din această subfamilie.
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)
- Johan Anton Bovinb. 1823SESwedish politician (1823-1894)
- Knut Adolf Bovinb. 1853SESwedish gardener and writer
- Emil Bovinb. 1868SESwedish physician
- Anders Bovinb. 1887SESwedish athletics competitor
- Birthe Bovinb. 1906DKDanish artist (1906-1980)
- Karl Bovinb. 1907DKDanish impressionist artist (1907-1985)
- Alexander Bovinb. 1930RUSoviet diplomat (1930-2004)
- Oleg Bovinb. 1946RURussian water polo player
- Pia Bovinb. 1963DKfilm director
- Sara Bovinb. 1984DKDanish radio and television presenter
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 11 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 301 | #2,968 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 120 | #4,533 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 67 | #21,272 |
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 Bovin mean, and where does it come from?
- forma dialetal apocopada de Bovino Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Bovin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊvɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bovin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 812 people named Бовин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bovin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bovin is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bovin?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 301 people named Bovin, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bovinThe 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, “Bovin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.