Bonface
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bonface is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 686◐
- MWMalawi1 in 3.6K
- ZMZambia1 in 33K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2 ●
- Sources
- 55 ●
- 1 in 19M ◐
across 1 country
8.3K records
Reference-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #109 | 42,000 | 7.9K rec. | — | — | Bonface | 55 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 180 | 126 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 13 |
| US United States | — | 121 | 92 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 40 |
| MW Malawi | #342 | 115 | 7 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 12 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 65 | 2 rec. | — | 2 | Bonface | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 56 | 56 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 33 | 10 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 11 | 23 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 4 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 7 | 3 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 7 |
| UG Uganda | — | 5 | 4 rec. | — | — | Bonface | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili43K98%
- English2941%
- Arabic1321%
- Hindi531%
- Urdu361%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 42,589 | 98% |
| English | 294 | 1% |
| Arabic | 132 | 1% |
| Hindi | 53 | 1% |
| Urdu | 36 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #37,624 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #32,134 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 2 | #43 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bonface?
- We estimate roughly 2 people bear Bonface (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Bonface have the most bearers?
- Bonface is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled bonface.
- How common is Bonface compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Bonface is the 109th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Bonface a male or female name?
- Bonface is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Bonface” — the 109th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.