Bót

given name · Latin script

Meaning: brush (used for cleanup)

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

Bót is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 8.4K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 70K
  • HRCroatia1 in 163K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

2,068 people, 2007

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

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 Bot in NL Netherlands, 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(measured from records)

brush (used for cleanup)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bót 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 Bót is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands2,0681 in 8.4K2.1KBot7
US United States2821 in 1.2M316Bot10
BR Brazil2211 in 958K221—1
PL Poland1741 in 220K102—1
ES Spain1551 in 323K155—1
BE Belgium561 in 209K56—2
SI Slovenia301 in 70K30——
HR Croatia261 in 163K26——

2,068 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

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

  • Ukrainian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Netherlands

    Languages: Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Bot

1 further group 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)

Bót is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, alternative form of but (“shoe”)

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

  • In Icelandic, betterment, improvement, cure

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

  • In tyz, blind

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

  • In csb, boot

    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)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

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

What does the name Bót mean, and where does it come from?
brush (used for cleanup) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Bót a male or female name?
Bót is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Bót have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Bót, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bot.
Where is Bót most common?
Bót is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bót?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,068 people named Bót in 2007, about 1 in 8.4 thousand 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, “Bót”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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