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Bonin (plural Bonins)

  1. A surname from French.
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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Bonin is the 8226th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4034 individuals. Bonin is most common among White (93.63%) individuals.

Etymology 2

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From French Bonin in an 1817 monograph on the islands by the French scholar Rémusat, misunderstanding Japanese 無人島 (mujintō, desert island) as a proper name for the Ogasawaras, misreading the kanji as the related pronunciation buninjima, and then mistranscribing the vowel into French.

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Bonin

  1. An archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc administered as Ogasawara (a subprefecture of Tokyo prefecture, Japan).
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