Given name & surname
Bonaventure
“one who undertakes a blessed venture”
Bonaventure is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “one who undertakes a blessed venture.”
Original LatinBonaventura
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who undertakes a blessed venture.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bonaventure through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,868 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,868 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 181 as a first name in 2020; 619 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bonaventure’s family of names
In English usage, Bonaventure as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Buenaventura. In English usage, Bonaventure has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form BOAVENTURA. In English usage, Bonaventure has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Buenaventura.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bonaventure has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Bonaventure comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bonaventure
- Bonaventure KalouIvorian and Dutch footballerborn 1978
- Bonaventure des PériersFrench writer1510–1544
- Bonaventure DjonkepCameroonian footballerborn 1961
- Bonaventure Sokambifootballerborn 1991
- Bonaventure NahimanaBurundian clergyman, Bishop of Rutanaborn 1959
- Bonaventure LaurensFrench painter (1801–1890)
- Bonaventure Soh Bejeng NdikungCameroonian artist and curatorborn 1977
- Bonaventure Bosco GubazireUgandan Roman-Catholic priestborn 1974
- Bonaventure Uwizeyimanacyclistborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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