Bói
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to tell fortunes, to divine, to take an augury
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bói is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 83K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 336K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
657 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to tell fortunes, to divine, to take an augury
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bói 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 657 | 1 in 2M | 657 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 177 | 1 in 1.9M | 257 | — | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 152 | 1 in 1.4M | 152 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 142 | 1 in 83K | 142 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 28 | 1 in 1.8M | 47 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 25 | 1 in 336K | 25 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 23 | 1 in 751K | 66 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 16 | — | — |
657 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bói is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mzs, waiter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lingala, honey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bói mean, and where does it come from?
- to tell fortunes, to divine, to take an augury Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bói have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 657 people named Bói, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bói most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bói is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bói?
- In India, the national register counted 657 people named Bói, about 1 in 2.0 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, “Bói”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.