Bonin
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Bonin (plural Bonins)
- A surname from French.
Statistics
[edit]- 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
[edit]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.
Proper noun
[edit]Bonin
- An archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc administered as Ogasawara (a subprefecture of Tokyo prefecture, Japan).
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- Ogasawara Subprefecture (the prefecture includes the nearby Volano Islands)
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[edit]References
[edit]- Hyman Kublin, "The Discovery of the Bonin Islands: A Reexamination", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March 1953), pp. 27–46.
- Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, "Description d'un Groupe d'Îles Peu Connues", Journal des Savans (July 1817), pp. 387–396.