Borrows
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of borrow (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Borrows is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 150 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)
150 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)third-person singular simple present indicative of borrow
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Borrows is found
(measured from records)Borrows 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 179 | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Borrows | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Borrows | 4 |
150 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- Chester Borrowsb. 1957NZNew Zealand politician
- Brian Borrowsb. 1960GBEnglish footballer (born 1960)
- Ian Borrowsb. 1989AUAustralian canoeist
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Borrows mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of borrow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Borrows have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 150 people named Borrows, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Borrows most common?
- Borrows is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Borrows?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Borrows in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million 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/borrowsThe 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, “Borrows” — ranked 99214th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.