The Bonte surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 375 people carried this name — #54,864 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 6% from 355 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 2,496 people named Bonte live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in West Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,697 people named Bonte.
55 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 68 départements, most often Nord.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
45 people named Bonte live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
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.
In the Nordic population registers
52 people named Bonte is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
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).
Who carried it
People named Bonte,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre-Joseph Bonte-Pollet 1779–1864 · politician -
Auguste Bonte 1853–1916 · politician -
Florimond Bonte 1890–1977 · politician -
Ludwig Bonte d. 1935 · police officer
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François André-Bonte 1735–1812 · politician
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Johann Friedrich Bonte 1781–1832 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bonte.
- Bono 5,272 · U.S. census
- Bonomi 356 · U.S. census
- Bonomo 2,007 · U.S. census
- Bonora 290 · U.S. census
- Bons 213 · U.S. census
- Bonsignore 902 · U.S. census
- Bontempi 132 · U.S. census
- Bontemps 351 · U.S. census
- Bonus 577 · U.S. census
- Bonville 373 · U.S. census
- Bony 152 · U.S. census
- Boo 508 · U.S. census
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