Bownu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bownu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.4Kas Baño(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5Kas Bano
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 8.3Kas Banu
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 Bownu 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #387 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 named Bano, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia, as Ban
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Banu in BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia, RO Romania, Bano in PK Pakistan and Baño in EC Ecuador.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bownu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #67 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 2 | Bano | 69 |
| BD Bangladesh | #76 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Banu | 48 |
| RO Romania | #700 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Banu | 29 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Banu | 87 |
| EC Ecuador | #755 | 4,902as Baño | 1 in 3.4K | 4.9K | Baño | 20 |
| HR Croatia | — | 2,779as Ban | 1 in 1.5K | 2.8K | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 598as Ban | 1 in 3.5K | 598 | — | 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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bownu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Bano in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bownu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Bownu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Croatia's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people named Ban.
- How common is the name Bownu?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,902 people named Baño in 2024, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Bownu compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Bownu is the 67th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bownu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bownuThe 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, “Bownu” — the 67th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.