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Bon

#12,296 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bon has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #12,296 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Bon, 2025

1 in 663,000

Bon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bon means

Bon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bon is used in Norman, Old Czech and Vietnamese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Bon is pronounced /ˈbon/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 274 boys were recorded with the name Bon between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1988; its best national rank was #2,892 in 1938.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,296
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bon was born before 1990 — so the typical Bon is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
231
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Bon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 1988 (17)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,892
1938

Bon around the world

Where Bon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1906–1906
    #619
    in 1906
  • South Australia
    1987–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,296
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,892
1938
Peak year
1988
17 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
274
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Bon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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