Boerke
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
Boerke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Mas Borke(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 720K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 262Kas Borke
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 Boerke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 720K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 named Borke, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Borke in US United States, DE Germany, NG Nigeria and 3 more.
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
(measured from records)清 蒙古 八 旗 姓 。 世 居 敖 漢 , 見 《 清 朝 通 志 . 氏族 略 》(23) 。
Cited for this meaning 1
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boerke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Borke | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Borke | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 766K | — | Borke | 12 |
| US United States | 273as Borke | 1 in 1.2M | 331 | Borke | 123 |
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Borke | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | 24 | 1 in 720K | 24 | Boerke | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 13as Borke | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| LB Lebanon | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 675K | — | Borke | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #46,133 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Boerke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Borke in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boerke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boerke is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 720 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boerke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 24 people named Boerke in 2007, about 1 in 720 thousand 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/boerkeThe 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, “Boerke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.