보라
given name · Hangul script
Meaning: purple, violet (an intermediate color between blue and red)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
보라 is a female given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.9M
- ALAlbania1 in 3.2Kas Bora
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 보라 itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bora in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)purple, violet (an intermediate color between blue and red)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)보라 counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #347 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | 보라 | 88 |
| US United States | — | 1,258as Bora | 1 in 264K | 1K | Bora | 107 |
| AL Albania | — | 971as Bora | 1 in 3.2K | 971 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 123as Bora | 1 in 83K | 123 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 88as Bora | 1 in 48K | 88 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 56as Bora | 1 in 38K | 43 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Geum Bo-rab. 1961KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Bora Chungb. 1976KRSouth Korean writer
- Kim Borab. 1981KRSouth Korean director
- Hwang Bo-rab. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Shin Borab. 1987KRSouth Korean comedian, actress and singer
- Nam Bo-rab. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Yoon Bo-rab. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, rapper and actress
- Kim Bo-rab. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Bo-rab. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Yoo Bo-raKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name 보라 mean, and where does it come from?
- purple, violet (an intermediate color between blue and red) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is 보라 a male or female name?
- 보라 is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does 보라 have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named 보라 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 보라.
- How common is the name 보라?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,258 people named Bora in 2020, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
- How common is 보라 compared with other names?
- In South Korea, 보라 is the 347th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%EB%B3%B4%EB%9D%BCThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “보라” — the 347th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.