# Bond (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bond/  
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 |
| Origin | Norse |
| Meaning | “peasant”, “farmer”, “speckled”, “motley” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 281 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 275 / 6 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

* As an English occupational surname, from the noun bond, bondman, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi (“peasant, farmer”). Also as a variant of Band. * As a Swedish surname, variant of Bonde. * As a Ukrainian surname, shortened from Bondarenko. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Bont, from bont (“speckled, motley”), compare Bonte.

## What it means

Bond is grouped under farmer.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | 9,259 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 10 | 7,661 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,726 |
| 2011 | 11 | 7,073 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,231 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,321 |
| 2016 | 12 | 6,777 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,830 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,426 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,300 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,169 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,268 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,092 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,587 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7,850 |
| 2025 | 10 | 7,749 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Бонд
- Catalan: Pagès
- Chinese: 邦德

## People named Bond

- Albert Bond Lambert, Amateur golfer, aviator (1875–1946)
- Francis Bond Head, British soldier and Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada

## 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.