# Bonaventure (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bonaventure/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 12,500 |
| 2025 | 6 | 10,868 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Бонавентура
- Catalan: Bonaventura
- Czech: Bonaventura
- Danish: Bonaventura
- Dutch: Bonaventura
- Esperanto: Bonaventura
- Estonian: Bonaventura
- Finnish: Bonaventura
- French: Bonaventure
- German: Bonaventura
- Hebrew: בונוונטורה
- Hungarian: Bonaventura
- Indonesian: Bonaventura
- Irish: Bonaventure
- Italian: Bonaventura
- Latin: Bonaventura
- Latvian: Bonaventura
- Lithuanian: Bonaventūras
- Norwegian: Bonaventura
- Polish: Bonawentura

## People named Bonaventure

- Bonaventure, Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, Catholic saint (1221–1274)
- Bonaventure des Périers, French writer
- Bonaventure Djonkep, Cameroonian footballer
- Prosper Bonaventure Ky, Burkinabe Catholic prelate (born in 1965)
- Bonaventure Nahimana, Burundian clergyman, Bishop of Rutana
- Bonaventure Sokambi, footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.