Boras
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cabeçudo; big headed; Casablanca, Tunisie, Algeria
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Boras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 28M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 5.3K
- PLPoland1 in 198K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
805 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cabeçudo; big headed; Casablanca, Tunisie, Algeria
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 41 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boras 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 805 | 1 in 5.3K | 805 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 193 | 1 in 198K | 102 | — | — |
| US United States | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 232 | Boras | 7 |
| IN India | 47 | 1 in 28M | 47 | Boras | 5 |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 9 | 1 in 234K | 9 | — | — |
805 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Boras is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mrw, penis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In msk, semen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bts, husked rice (milled raw seeds used as food)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, boron (chemical element)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, present of borar
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zygmunt Borasb. 1927PLPolish historian
- Damir Borasb. 1951HRCroatian scientist (1951- )
- Scott Borasb. 1952USAmerican sports agent and former professional baseball player
- Jean-François Borasb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Igor Borasb. 1968BABosnian bobsledder
- Arijana Borasb. 1976BABosnian alpine skier
- Annika Borasb. 1981USactress
- Tyler Borasb. 1982CACanadian judoka
- Ivan Borasb. 1991HRCroatian footballer
- Marco Borasb. 2001HRCroatian footballer
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 805 | #736 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 773 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 232 | #86,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 221 | #79,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 192 | #95,115 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 102 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 102 | #29,410 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 91 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 91 | #31,816 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 47 | #46,377 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #54,376 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #53,553 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Boras mean?
- Recorded meaning: cabeçudo; big headed; Casablanca, Tunisie, Algeria
- In which country does Boras have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 805 people named Boras, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boras most common?
- Boras is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Boras?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 805 people named Boras in 2021, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borasThe 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, “Boras”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.