Bóka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bokɒ/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated · uncertain
Bóka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 300K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 451K
- BEBelgium1 in 510K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, 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 Boka in US United States.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bóka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #798 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Bóka | 52 |
| US United States | — | 302 | 1 in 1.1M | 329 | Boka | 33 |
| IN India | — | 65 | 1 in 20M | 65 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 48 | 1 in 798K | 30 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 28 | 1 in 1.8M | 28 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 23 | 1 in 510K | 23 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 7 | 1 in 300K | 7 | — | — |
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 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bóka 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 Icelandic, to book (include in a written record)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, indefinite genitive plural of bók
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kea, mouth
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- László Bókab. 1910HUwriter, poet, literary historian (1910–1964)
- Éva Bókab. 1955HUHungarian historian
- István Bókab. 1964HUHungarian politician
- János Bókab. 1978HUHungarian lawyer, politician
- Bendegúz Bókab. 1993HUHungarian handball player
- Maria BarbackaPLnot in their usual namepaleontologist and botanist
- Károly Bókabotanist
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #312,864 |
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
- How do you pronounce Bóka?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /bokɒ/; in Slovak /bˌoːka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bóka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 398 people named Bóka in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bóka.
- How common is the name Bóka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 302 people named Bóka in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Bóka compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Bóka is the 798th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bóka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B3kaThe 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, “Bóka” — the 798th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.