Bóia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of boia
Bóia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 195K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 62K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 67K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
1,085 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boia in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, US United States and 2 more.
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)Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of boia. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bóia 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.
1,085 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Bóia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kea, a float (life buoy, or similar floating device)
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
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bóia come from?
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of boia. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Bóia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of boia.
- In which country does Bóia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Bóia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boia.
- How common is the name Bóia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,085 people named Bóia, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bóia?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B3iaThe 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, “Bóia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.