Given name
Bonifatius
“good”·“fate”
Bonifatius is a masculine given name from Late Latin. It is used in English and Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bonifatius is built from elements meaning “good” and “fate”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bonifatius’s family of names
In English usage, Bonifatius has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Bonifacio. In English usage, Bonifatius has a conventional equivalent in the French form Boniface. In English usage, Bonifatius has a conventional equivalent in Baonifasy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bonifatius has relatives in 21 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- BonifaceFrench
- BonifacioSpanish, Italian
- Bonifazequivalent
- Bonifaciusequivalent
- Bonifacoequivalent
- БонифацийRussian
- BonifacyPolish
- BonifácCzech, Slovak
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People named Bonifatius
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