Given name & surname

Bond

“a peasant farmer”

Bond is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a peasant farmer.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

One English interpretation is “a peasant farmer.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is English.

How it developed

From Old Norse bóndi (“peasant, farmer”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Bond through the years

Babies since 1880
281
275 boys · 6 girls
Most popular year
2023
13 babies
2025
10
#7,749 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
+19%
Rising
Boys Girls
02468192019401960198020002025Highest share 2023Boys 5.9Girls 0.0
Bond in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1917–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,749 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 19.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 418 as a first name in 2020; 50,649 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.

Bond’s family of names

Bond has a related form in Bonde. In English usage, Bond as a surname has a related form in BAND. In English usage, Bond has a related form in Bonde.

Walk Bond’s family in the name graph

BondБондBondeBandPagès

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: 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

Bond has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its English roots to each of them.

English

Englishwhere Bond comes from · 2 names

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.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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.

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