Borje

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɔɹdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Borje is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 456K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.4M
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.6M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

132 people

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 456K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Borje 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.

Where Borje is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1321 in 1.6M132Borje12
US United States1251 in 2.7M147Borje38
AR Argentina331 in 1.4M33Borje22
NO Norway121 in 456K12—2
ES Spain111 in 4.5M11Borje15
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2—4

132 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Borje is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Germany, Sweden

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Börje, Boerje

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, Sweden, United States

    Also written Börje

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, Finland, Sweden

    Also written Börje

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Börje

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Borje is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Serbo-Croatian, pine forest

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pdt, to borrow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

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

How do you pronounce Borje?
A machine transcription gives /bɔɹdʒ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Borje have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 132 people named Borje, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borje.
Where is Borje most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Borje is densest in Norway — about 1 in 456 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Borje?
In Brazil, the national register counted 132 people named Borje, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Borje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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