Bungo

loc · Latin script

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

Bungo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 521K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 868K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

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)

250 people, 2010

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 521K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bun-Go in PH Philippines.

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bungo 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.

Where Bungo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2501 in 1.3M253—118
PH Philippines≈130 est.≈1 in 868K—Bun-Go5
TZ Tanzania≈110 est.≈1 in 521K1—3
PG Papua New Guinea——1——
IN India——73——

250 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Bun-Go, Buñgo

29 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bungo 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 English, A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bik, skull

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Angolā, Uiže provincē

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Bungo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000253#71,808
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010250#76,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020249#81,829
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—73#2,085
TZ TanzaniaINEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results20201#12
PG Papua New GuineaPNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022)—1#35
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

In which country does Bungo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 250 people named Bungo, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Bungo?
In the United States, the national register counted 250 people named Bungo in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Bungo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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