Given name

Boaventura

Boaventura is a given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Boaventura comes from Latin.

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How it developed

From Latin Bonaventura.

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Boaventura’s family of names

In Portuguese usage, Boaventura has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bonaventure. In Galician usage, Boaventura has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form BONAWENTURA.

Walk Boaventura’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Boaventura has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.

Latin

2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Boaventura

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

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“sedge”

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Germanic

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“place with vultures”

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Volturara

“vulture”

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Oneglia

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Otávia

Otávia is a given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Boaventura’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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