Borchers
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from the Germanic personal name Burchard/Burkhard ('bear-brave'); plate shows guttural/plosive variation ch~k~g in surname spellings (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Borchers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
- DKDenmark1 in 96K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Patronymic from the Germanic personal name Burchard/Burkhard ('bear-brave'); plate shows guttural/plosive variation ch~k~g in surname spellings.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Borchers is found
(measured from records)Borchers 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Borchers | 109 |
| US United States | 2,881 | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Borchers | 300 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Borchers | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Borchers | 42 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Borchers | 14 |
| IE Ireland | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Borchers | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 61 | 1 in 96K | 61 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | 2 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cornell Borchersb. 1925DEGerman actress (1925-2014)
- Elisabeth Borchersb. 1926DEGerman writer (1926–2013)
- Donald P. Borchersb. 2000USAmerican film director, producer
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Borchers mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic from the Germanic personal name Burchard/Burkhard ('bear-brave'); plate shows guttural/plosive variation ch~k~g in surname spellings. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Borchers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Borchers in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borchers. After it come United States, Canada, United Kingdom and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Borchers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,881 people named Borchers in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borchersThe 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, “Borchers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.