Bo-Ra

Name: Bo-Ra: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

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

Bo-Ra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From borë (“snow”), possibly related to Illyrian *Bora, *Boria.

ALAlbania1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
SISlovenia1 in 38K
HRCroatia1 in 48K

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 Bo-Ra 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.

: South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 107 (measured from records)
: 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

Bo-RaLatin

보라Hangul

Locally spelled 보라 in KR South Korea and Bora in US United States.

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

From borë (“snow”), possibly related to Illyrian *Bora, *Boria.

Cited for this meaning 2

TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Bo-Ra 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 Bo-Ra is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
KR South Korea	#347	≈52,000 est.	≈1 in 1K	—	보라	88
US United States	—	1,258	1 in 264K	1K	Bora	107
AL Albania	—	971	1 in 3.2K	971	—	—
SE Sweden	—	123	1 in 83K	123	—	1
HR Croatia	—	88	1 in 48K	88	—	—
SI Slovenia	—	56	1 in 38K	43	—	—

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; 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 names spelled this way

Bo-Ra is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India, Germany, Philippines
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Bora, Borà, Borä
a separate name4 spellings in the group
Also written Borā, Bora, Börä
Portuguese surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, India, Argentina, United States
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Bora, Borá, Bõrã, Bõřą, Bořa

8 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.

Notable people with this name

Geum Bo-rab. 1961KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
Bora Chungb. 1976KRSouth Korean writer
Kim Borab. 1981KRSouth Korean director
Hwang Bo-rab. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
Shin Borab. 1987KRSouth Korean comedian, actress and singer
Nam Bo-rab. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
Yoon Bo-rab. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer, rapper and actress
Kim Bo-rab. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
Kim Bo-rab. 1999KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
Yoo Bo-raKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean screenwriter

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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bo-Ra under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bo-Ra mean, and where does it come from?: From borë (“snow”), possibly related to Illyrian *Bora, *Boria. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary.
Is Bo-Ra a male or female name?: Bo-Ra is a female 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 Bo-Ra have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named 보라 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bo-Ra most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bo-Ra is densest in Albania — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bo-Ra?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,258 people named Bo-Ra in 2020, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
How common is Bo-Ra compared with other names?: In South Korea, Bo-Ra is the 347th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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 2026-10-13 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, “Bo-Ra” — the 347th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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