Bonison Surname

4,206,983rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 22 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Papua New Guinea

Bonison Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bonison Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India121:63,922,115578,870
Tanzania41:13,235,40384,310
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Malaysia21:14,747,112316,340
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England51:4,875,074116,529
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States61:8,369,781355,680

Bonison (55) may also be a first name.

Bonison Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bonison Come From? nationality or country of origin

Bonison is held by more people in India than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Bonison.

How Common Is The Last Name Bonison? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 4,206,983rd most frequent last name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 331,252,087 people. The surname Bonison occurs predominantly in Asia, where 64 percent of Bonison live; 55 percent live in South Asia and 55 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Bonison is also the 1,336,256th most frequently held forename in the world, held by 55 people.

The surname is most widely held in India, where it is carried by 12 people, or 1 in 63,922,115. In India it is most numerous in: Manipur, where 67 percent live, Karnataka, where 8 percent live and Kerala, where 8 percent live. Without taking into account India this surname exists in 5 countries. It also occurs in Tanzania, where 18 percent live and Brazil, where 9 percent live.

Bonison Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Bonison has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Bonison last name contracted 83 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Bonison
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