Børre
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Byrge
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bøːrrə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Børre is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 554K
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, 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 Boerre in US United States, GH Ghana.
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)
a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Byrge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Børre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 3.2K | Børre | 19 |
| GH Ghana | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 554K | — | Boerre | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | — | 30 | Børre | 17 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Boerre | 15 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Børre Falkum-Hansenb. 1919NOOlympic sailor (1919–2006)
- Børre Knudsenb. 1937NONorwegian priest (1937–2014)
- Odd Børreb. 1939NONorwegian pop singer (1939–2023)
- Børre Rognlienb. 1944NONorwegian politician and sports administrator
- Børre Rønningenb. 1949NONorwegian politician
- Ragnar Olsenb. 1950NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian translator and banjoist
- Børre Meinsethb. 1966NONorwegian association football player
- Børre Sæthreb. 1967NONorwegian artist
- Fred Børre Lundbergb. 1969NONorwegian former Nordic combined skier
- Børre Næssb. 1982NONorwegian cross-country skier
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 3.2K | #816 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1969 | 49 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1968 | 47 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1972 | 42 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1970 | 41 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1971 | 40 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1961 | 35 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1960 | 34 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1959 | 33 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1952 | 32 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1966 | 31 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1964 | 30 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Børre mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Byrge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Børre?
- A machine transcription gives /bøːrrə/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Børre a male or female name?
- Børre is a male 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 Børre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 939 people named Børre in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled børre.
- How common is the name Børre?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4 people named Børre, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Børre?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B8rreThe 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, “Børre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.