Bonolo

given name · English · Latin script

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

Bonolo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Botswana it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: de Bono com sufixo singular -olo.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 7K◐
  • BWBotswana1 in 3.3K
  • AUAustralia1 in 8.9M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

6.6K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
48 ●

5.6K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

de Bono com sufixo singular -olo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bonolo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa#7984,8425.2K rec.——Bonolo48
US United States—77184 rec.—listedBonolo24
BW Botswana#3225116 rec.——Bonolo20
GB United Kingdom—2114 rec.——Bonolo15
AU Australia—1333 rec.——Bonolo10
BR Brazil——1 rec.—70—2
AR Argentina————10——
ES Spain————6——
CH Switzerland——0 rec.—3—1
LS Lesotho——6 rec.—1—2
IT Italy——14 rec.—listed—4

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.1K46%
  • Swahili76712%
  • Southern Sotho6179%
  • English (South Africa)3485%
  • Spanish2764%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,06746%
Swahili76712%
Southern Sotho6179%
English (South Africa)3485%
Spanish2764%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • Spanish given name1.5K records spelled Bonolo5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, French

    Also written Boñolo

34 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Bonolo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—70#82,471
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—10—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6#154,812
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
LS LesothoLesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists20221#20
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

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 2026-09-12 data build · 7 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bonolo?
Our records include 6,592 bearers of Bonolo across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Bonolo have the most bearers?
Bonolo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled bonolo.
How common is Bonolo compared with other names?
In South Africa, Bonolo is the 798th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
Is Bonolo a male or female name?
Bonolo is a female 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.
What does the name Bonolo mean?
Recorded meaning: de Bono com sufixo singular -olo
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonolo

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bonolo” — the 798th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Bonolo parses inside a full name →