Bounmy
Meaning
blessed with merit (boun = merit, from Pali punna, + mi = to have); boun is the single most common element in Lao given names, tied to Buddhist merit-making, and Bounmy was an everyman classic of the refugee generation that arrived after 1975
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Bounmy has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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