The genus containing both bonobos and common chimpanzees is Pan.
Pan is an African ape genus in the family Hominidae. Its two living species are the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, and the bonobo, Pan paniscus. Both are close evolutionary relatives of humans, although neither is an ancestor of modern people; humans and Pan share an extinct common ancestor.
The genus name comes from Pan, the Greek god associated with the wild, while the species names distinguish the two apes. Common chimpanzees occupy much of equatorial Africa and are divided into several recognized subspecies. Bonobos are found naturally only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, south of the Congo River.
People sometimes confuse a genus with a family or a common name. Chimpanzee and bonobo are species-level common names, whereas Pan is the genus that groups them together. Gorilla, Pongo, and Homo are neighboring great-ape genera, not alternatives within Pan.