Boers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: characteristic of farmers
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Boers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 133K
- USUnited States1 in 545K
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 Boers 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
5,378 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bors in RO Romania, AT Austria.
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)
characteristic of farmers
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boers 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #240 | 5,378 | 1 in 3.2K | 5.4K | Boers | 103 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bors | 21 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,086as Bors | 1 in 35K | 560 | Boers | 2 |
| US United States | — | 610 | 1 in 545K | 629 | Boers | 164 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Boers | 65 |
| BE Belgium | — | 236 | 1 in 50K | 236 | Boers | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Bors | 30 |
5,378 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Boers is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, indefinite genitive plural of bo
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)
- Carolus Boersb. 1746NLDutch theologian
- George Pieter Willem Boersb. 1811NLDutch colonial governor
- Willy Boersb. 1905NLDutch painter (1905-1978)
- Hendrikus Boersb. 1928theologian (1928-2007)
- Frank Bonnerb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and director (1942-2021)
- Klaus Boersb. 1953DEGerman jurist
- Frank Boersb. 1964BEBelgian linguist
- Eyal Boersb. 1975ILIsraeli film director, producer and researcher
- Isayah Boersb. 1999Dutch sprinter
- Geoffrey BoersUSchoral conductor and music professor
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5.4K | #144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 629 | #34,114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 610 | #36,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 587 | #40,270 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 236 | #7,118 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 209 | #8,601 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #215,119 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #311,540 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Boers mean, and where does it come from?
- characteristic of farmers Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Boers have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Boers, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boers.
- Where is Boers most common?
- Boers is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Boers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,378 people named Boers in 2007, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Boers compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Boers is the 240th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boersThe 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, “Boers” — the 240th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.