Given name & surname
Bonar
“a gentleman; one who is mannerly”
Bonar is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “a gentleman; one who is mannerly.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “a gentleman; one who is mannerly.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
In Polish usage, Bonar as a surname developed from BENNER.
Bonar’s family of names
In Polish usage, Bonar as a surname developed from the German form BENNER. Bonar has a related form in Bonner. Bonar has a related form in Boner.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Bonnervariant
- Bonnyrvariant
- Bonyrvariant
- Bonnirvariant
- Bonirvariant
- Bonnurvariant
- Bonurvariant
- Bonervariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bonar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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