Bogeyman

Quality:

Bogeyman - fictional creature, often used to scare kids. Article “Bogeyman” in Spanish Wikipedia has 12.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Spanish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Bogeyman”, its content was written by 79 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 1972 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 62 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 2327 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #1897 in January 2016
• Global: #5243 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #4704 in June 2023
• Global: #6754 in June 2023

There are 31 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bogeyman		55.2946
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		47.5461
3	German (de) Butzemann		29.2206
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Buse		28.5106
5	Simple English (simple) Bogeyman		26.5313
6	Hungarian (hu) Mumus		24.3547
7	Czech (cs) Strašidlo		22.7686
8	Greek (el) Μπαμπούλας		22.096
9	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		21.7923
10	Serbian (sr) Бубуш		21.5457

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bogeyman		10 495 552
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		1 514 344
3	Japanese (ja) ブギーマン		1 190 776
4	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		1 047 898
5	German (de) Butzemann		769 039
6	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		630 629
7	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		580 494
8	Italian (it) Uomo nero		557 236
9	Persian (fa) لولوخورخوره		169 644
10	Korean (ko) 보기맨		155 534

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bogeyman		22 837
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		3 373
3	Japanese (ja) ブギーマン		2 524
4	German (de) Butzemann		2 306
5	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		1 890
6	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		1 338
7	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		1 027
8	Italian (it) Uomo nero		904
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ông kẹ		675
10	Persian (fa) لولوخورخوره		611

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bogeyman		981
2	French (fr) Croque-mitaine		218
3	Italian (it) Uomo nero		112
4	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		79
5	German (de) Butzemann		75
6	Portuguese (pt) Bicho-papão		69
7	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		65
8	Finnish (fi) Mörkö		54
9	Dutch (nl) Boeman		42
10	Japanese (ja) ブギーマン		40

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bogeyman		3
2	Vietnamese (vi) Ông kẹ		2
3	Arabic (ar) بعبع		1
4	Russian (ru) Бука (фольклор)		1
5	Catalan (ca) Papu		0
6	Czech (cs) Strašidlo		0
7	German (de) Butzemann		0
8	Greek (el) Μπαμπούλας		0
9	Spanish (es) Bogeyman		0
10	Estonian (et) Lastehirmutis		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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