Boros
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Hungarian: wine (storing wine)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Boros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname.
- HUHungary≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 6.1K
- HRCroatia1 in 18K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boroš in RS Serbia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
wine (storing wine)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Boros is read(measured from records)
Boros is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
name variant; meaning unclear
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Hungarian27%
wine (storing wine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Boros in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boros 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #55 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 16K | Boros | 124 |
| RO Romania | #720 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Boros | 41 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Boros | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,360 | 1 in 245K | 1.4K | Boros | 114 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 188K | listed | — | 6 |
| HR Croatia | — | 232 | 1 in 18K | 232 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Boroš | 11 |
| SK Slovakia | #384 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Boros | 35 |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Boros is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Borox, Toledo (España)
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In zlm, become loose, of a string wound around something; letting out rope; (fig.) prodigal, extravagant
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In zlm, prodigal, wasteful, extravagant
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In msk, to flow, of water
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Ferike Borosb. 1873USStage and movie actress
- Sándor Borosb. 1907HU(1907–1944) Hungarian chess player
- Adalbert Borosb. 1908RORoman Catholic archbishop (1908–2003)
- István Borosb. 1909HUHungarian table tennis player (1909–1994)
- Julius Borosb. 1920USprofessional golfer (1920–1994)
- Ottó Borosb. 1929HUHungarian water polo player (1929–1988)
- Steve Borosb. 1936USAmerican baseball player and coach (1936–2010)
- Boros Imreb. 1947HUHungarian politician
- Iosif Boroșb. 1953RORomanian handball player
- Tamara Borošb. 1977HRCroatian table tennis player
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Boros mean, and where does it come from?
- wine (storing wine) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Boros have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Boros in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boros.
- How common is the name Boros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,360 people named Boros in 2010, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
- How common is Boros compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Boros is the 55th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borosThe 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, “Boros” — the 55th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.