Given name & surname
Bonifacio
“doer of good deeds”
Bonifacio is used as a given name and a surname. One Late Latin interpretation is “doer of good deeds.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Late Latin interpretation is “doer of good deeds.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
Bonifacio developed from Late Latin Bonifatius. The earlier name combines bonum (“good”) and fatum (“fate”).
The story
The name’s historical associations include several early saints, including a 7th-century pope and an Anglo-Saxon missionary.
Bonifacio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,568
- 1,568 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1930
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −43%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 35 in 1930. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,903 as a first name in 2020; 2,775 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.
Bonifacio’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Bonifacio has a diminutive in BONG. Bonifacio shares a linguistic root with Bonifaz. Bonifacio has a related form in Boniface.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bonifacio has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
10 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Boydiminutive · Tagalog
- Bonifacevariant · French
- Bongdiminutive · Tagalog, ceb
- Bonifacciolikely variant
- Pasyodiminutive · ceb
- Bongbongdiminutive · ceb
- Fazioshort form · Italian
- Bonifaziovariant · Italian
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bonifacio
- Boniface IV of MontferratItalian noble (1512-1530)
- Bonifazio VeroneseItalian painter (1487–1553)
- Facino CaneItalian noble and condottiero1360–1412
- Bonifacio BemboItalian painter and miniaturist of the early-Renaissance (1420-1480)
- Boniface del VastoItalian noble (c. 1055 – c. 1125)1060–1130
- Bonifacio Ondó EdúPrime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (1922-1969)
- Bonifacio FerreroItalian cardinal1476–1543
- Bonifazio GrazianiItalian composer (1605-1664)
- Bonifaci FerrerCarthusian monk1355–1417
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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