The Bonn surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,266 people carried this name — #13,440 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 129,900 people counted. That is up 8% from 2,104 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 182 people named Bonn.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
174 people named Bonn are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Bonn in American newspapers,
1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 186,464 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Bonn,
with a public archive behind them.
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Andreas Bonn 1738–1818 · physician -
Andreas Bonn 1738–1817 · physician
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Aron Bonn 1600–1623
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Anthony Bonn 1705–1770
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Johan Gustaf Bonn 1745–1796 · actor
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Kristina Ulrika Bonn 1757– · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bonn.
- Bonini 708 · U.S. census
- Bonino 513 · U.S. census
- Boniol 151 · U.S. census
- Bonis 272 · U.S. census
- Bonjean 122 · U.S. census
- Bonjour 560 · U.S. census
- Bonne 384 · U.S. census
- Bonneau 2,147 · U.S. census
- Bonnel 187 · U.S. census
- Bonner 33,446 · U.S. census
- Bonnes 387 · U.S. census
- Bonnet 2,240 · U.S. census
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