Boér
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante di Bove
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Boér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 15K
- DEGermany≈1 in 26K
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 Boér 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 283 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
11,448 people, 2007
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Boer in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, IN India and 3 more.
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)Variante di Bove
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boér 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #9 | 11,448 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | Boer | 189 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Boer | 38 |
| IN India | — | 3,188as Bor | 1 in 416K | 3.2K | Boer | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Boer | 112 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,389 | 1 in 89K | 2.4K | — | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Boer | 118 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Boer | 36 |
11,448 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Ferenc Boérb. 1650HUHungarian politicus 17th century-1720)
- Elek Boérb. 1872HUHungarian jurist (1872-1952)
- Ágoston Boérb. 1893HUHungarian landowner, Embassy Secretary, Member of Parliament
- László Boérb. 1907ROHungarian physician from Romania (1907-1972)
- Margit Boérb. 1914RO(1914–2000)
- Elemér Földváry-Boérb. 1930HUHungarian poet and writer (1930-1956)
- Csaba Boérb. 1975ROHungarian computer scientist (born: 1975)
- Katalin Boér-Sorbánb. 1976ROHungarian computer scientist from Romania (1976–)
- Gábor Boérb. 1982HUHungarian football player and manager (born 1982)
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 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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 Boér mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Bove Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani.
- In which country does Boér have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Boér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boer.
- Where is Boér most common?
- Boér is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Boér?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 11,448 people named Boér in 2007, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Boér compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Boér is the 9th most common surname of 284,143 surnames 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/bo%C3%A9rThe 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, “Boér” — the 9th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.