Bonin

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Proper noun ==== Bonin (plural Bonins) A surname from French. ===== Statistics ===== 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 === 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 ==== 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 ===== Ogasawara Islands (Japanese contexts) ===== Hypernyms ===== Ogasawara Subprefecture (the prefecture includes the nearby Volano Islands) ===== Hyponyms ===== Chichijima, Hahajima ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === 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. === Anagrams === NOIBN