Borden
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the valley of the boar; Slavonic/Russian
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɒɹdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Borden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 21K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈64,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the valley of the boar; Slavonic/Russian
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borden 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Borden | 7 |
| US United States | 15,500 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Borden | 417 |
| EG Egypt | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Borden | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Borden | 82 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Borden | 135 |
| SG Singapore | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Borden | 12 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Borden 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 English, first attested Alice de Borden 1206 Cur (K)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, perhaps so called from OE bar boar + denn (swine) pas¬ ture. Alternatively the first element may be OE bord board (cf. Boarder 1) or a Gmc element meaning ‘elevation’, ‘hill’ (cf. Boreham).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, perhaps so called from OE bar boar + denn (swine) pasture.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, ‘Person from Borden’, Kent.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Alice de Borden’ 1206 Cur (K); Richard Bordon 1296 SRSx; Henry Borden 1375
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Gail Bordenb. 1801USAmerican inventor (1801–1874)
- Robert Bordenb. 1854CA8th prime minister of Canada (1854–1937)
- Lizzie Bordenb. 1860USAmerican murder suspect (1860–1927)
- Mary Bordenb. 1886USAmerican writer (1886–1968)
- Eugene Bordenb. 1897USAmerican actor (1897-1971)
- Olive Bordenb. 1906USAmerican actress (1906–1947)
- Lynn Bordenb. 1937USAmerican actress
- Lizzie Bordenb. 1958USAmerican filmmaker (born 1958)
- Stingb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Amanda Bordenb. 1977USAmerican gymnast
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 27 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,403 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Borden mean, and where does it come from?
- from the valley of the boar; Slavonic/Russian Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How common is the name Borden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,500 people named Borden in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Borden?
- A machine transcription gives /bɒɹdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Borden have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Borden in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borden.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bordenThe 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, “Borden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.