Bóy
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bóy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”).
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.6K
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.8K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
18,094 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boy in US United States, PH Philippines, ZA South Africa and 3 more and Boey in MY Malaysia.
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)
From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”).
Sources 4
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bóy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,094 | 1 in 18K | 153K | Boy | 286 |
| ZA South Africa | #593 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Boy | 34 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #532 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Boy | 25 |
| VN Vietnam | #554 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Boy | 47 |
| PH Philippines | #221 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 17K | Boy | 85 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Boey | 57 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,549 | 1 in 6.8K | 2.5K | Boy | 77 |
18,094 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bóy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Turkic *bod. See dialectal bodur (“stout, short”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Bóy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Bóy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boy.
- How common is the name Bóy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,094 people named Bóy in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Bóy compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Bóy is the 221st most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bóy?
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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%B3yThe 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, “Bóy” — the 221st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.