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The Bonavita surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 812 people carried this name — #29,171 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 9% from 748 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Bonavita surname

From bona (“good”) + vita (“life”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bonavita» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 969 people named Bonavita live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

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Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 835
City of Buenos Aires 78
Santa Fe 16
Neuquén 15
Corrientes 13
Córdoba 12

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 261 people named Bonavita.

25 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Corsica.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 25
Corsica 120
Bouches-du-Rhône 48
Var 20
Paris 8
Alpes-Maritimes 7
Charente-Maritime 7
Meurthe-et-Moselle 5
Gard 4

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

33 people named Bonavita live in Switzerland.

They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Vaud 13
Lucerne 6
Solothurn 6
Basel-Landschaft 4
Ticino 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

Who carried it

People named Bonavita,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Francesco Bonavita
    Francesco Bonavita 1867–1939 · writer
  • María Adela Bonavita
    María Adela Bonavita 1900–1934 · writer
  • Francesco Bianchi Buonavita 1593–1658 · painter
  • Iacopo Bonavita 1600–1656 · sculptor
  • Antonio Bonavita 1752–1833
  • Auguste Bonavita 1887–1943 · military personnel

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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