Boar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From OE bār ‘boar’; first attested Æilmar Bar c1095 Bury (Sf)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/bɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 550K
- GHGhana≈1 in 665K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From OE bār ‘boar’; first attested Æilmar Bar c1095 Bury (Sf)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Boar is read
(measured from records)Boar is one spelling over 4 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.
- English44%
From OE bār ‘boar’; first attested Æilmar Bar c1095 Bury (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Æilmar Bar c1095 Bury (Sf); Godwin bar 1148 Winton (Ha); Walter Bor 1255 Rams (Hu); Robert le Bor 1287 Ipm (Bk); John le Boor 1312 AD iv (D). OE bār ‘boar’.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Boar in Spanish.
- Romanian11%
cowherd
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Boar in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Boar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Boar | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 111 | 1 in 1.9M | 111 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 91 | 1 in 550K | 91 | Boar | 10 |
| US United States | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | listed | Boar | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1M | listed | Boar | 58 |
| GH Ghana | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 665K | — | Boar | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | 9 | 1 in 1.2M | 9 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Boar 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 Western Frisian, drill, bore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, hedgehog
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)- Teo Boarb. 1965RORomanian guitarist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 111 | #58,586 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 91 | #29,520 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 91 | #29,285 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #84,872 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Boar mean, and where does it come from?
- From OE bār ‘boar’; first attested Æilmar Bar c1095 Bury (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Boar?
- In the etymology graph, Bär and Boaro are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Boar?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 706 people named Boar in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boar.
- How common is the name Boar?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 111 people named Boar, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boarThe 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, “Boar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.