Bore
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: boron
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɔʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.4Kas Beer(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 14Kas Bor
- INIndia1 in 32Kas Bora
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 Bore 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
41,715 named Bora
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Beer in US United States, ZA South Africa, CH Switzerland and 1 more, Bari in IN India and Bor in TR Türkiye.
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)
v., mbo = bo, and mbo, bo, bu; bore through, filo
Sources 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested across 38 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bore is read(measured from records)
Bore is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French26%
boron
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bore in Hindi.
- Swahili23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bore in Swahili.
- English11%
v., mbo = bo, and mbo, bo, bu; bore through, filo
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
To inspire boredom in somebody.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
v. BOAR
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Norwegian Bokmål5.2%
to bore or drill (make a hole through something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
past participle of bera
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bore 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 41,715as Bora | 1 in 32K | 42K | Bari | 140 |
| ZA South Africa | #213 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Beer | 106 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 9 | Beer | 20 |
| US United States | — | 8,252as Bear | 1 in 40K | 9K | Beer | 360 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Bor | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,572as Bär | 1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Beer | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,280 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | — | 10 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 723as Bari | 1 in 7.5K | 723 | — | 8 |
41,715 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling bora. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
- Tordis Boreb. 1906NONorwegian teacher
- Thor Bjarne Boreb. 1938NONorwegian politician (1938-2019)
- Albert Boreb. 1946GBBritish politician (born 1946)
- Geir Arne Boreb. 1967NONorwegian journalist and contributing editor
- Bjørn Kristoffer Boreb. 1969NONorwegian newspaper editor
- Peter Boreb. 1987GBEnglish association football player (born 1987)
- Marie Rein BoreNONorwegian journalist
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 35 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Bore come from?
- v., mbo = bo, and mbo, bo, bu; bore through, filo Recorded by Vocabulary of the Mende Language.
- How do you pronounce Bore?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Bore mean?
- In French, boron
- What are other forms of the name Bore?
- In the etymology graph, Borer and Boron are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bore have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Bora, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bore is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bore?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,280 people named Bore, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Bore compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Bore is the 213th most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bore?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boreThe 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, “Bore” — the 213th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.