Bordel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: brothel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɔʁdɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bordel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 127K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 676K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
brothel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bordel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 59 | Bordel | 124 |
| ES Spain | 74 | 1 in 676K | 74 | — | 3 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | listed | Bordel | 4 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Bordel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, bordello, brothel, whorehouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, brothel, whorehouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, bordello, brothel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A brothel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-oca, Bordeaux
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)
- Wolfgang Bordelb. 1939DEGerman association football player (1939–2024)
- Wolfgang Bordelb. 1951DEGerman intendant (1951–2022)
- Sergio Bordelresearcher
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 166 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 150 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 142 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 131 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 90 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 74 | #34,069 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 74 | #33,924 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 65 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bordel mean, and where does it come from?
- brothel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bordel?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔʁdɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bordel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 536 people named Bordel in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bordel.
- How common is the name Bordel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 74 people named Bordel, about 1 in 676 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/bordelThe 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, “Bordel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.