Bordo

loc · Latin script

Meaning: side, board

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bordo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 230K
  • ARArgentina1 in 429K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈600 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Bordó in BR Brazil.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

side, board

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bordo 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.

Where Bordo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈600 est.≈1 in 105Klisted—41
BR Brazil2221 in 954K222Bordó34
US United States2081 in 1.6M208Bordo119
AR Argentina1061 in 429K106Bordo31
FR France≈90 est.≈1 in 755K9—1
PL Poland591 in 649K34——
BE Belgium511 in 230K51—5

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bordo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bordó

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bordó

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Israel

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бордо, Bordeaux

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bordo 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 Portuguese, aboard

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In Welsh, Bordeaux (the capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, bordeaux, claret (having a dark red color tinged with purple, like that of Bordeaux (red) wine)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of bordar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, board, plank used in ship making

    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)

1920194019601980Louis Bordo, b. 1920Michael Bordo, b. 1942Susan Bordo, b. 1947Robert Bordo, b. 1949Franco Bordo, b. 1959Michele Bordo, b. 1973

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 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Bordo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—222#33,732
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010208#89,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000200#86,657
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020188#102,164
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—106—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200851#25,902
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202634—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—34#63,882
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25#77,799
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19919—

Reference works 3

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 Bordo mean, and where does it come from?
side, board Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bordo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 595 people named Bordo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Bordo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 222 people named Bordo, about 1 in 954 thousand residents.

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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, “Bordo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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