Borshch
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɔɹʃk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Borshch is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7.1Kas Борщ(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 50Kas Борщ
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 118Kas Борщ
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 Borshch 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 named Борщ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Борщ in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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)
홍당무를 주재료로 하여 고기, 채소 따위를 넣고 뻑뻑하게 끓여 사워크림(Sour Cream)을 끼얹어 먹는, 러시아식 수프.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borshch 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #709 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Борщ | 41 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Борщ | 122 |
| PL Poland | — | 464 | 1 in 83K | 244 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 86 | Борщ | 27 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Борщ | 14 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Borshch is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "beet soup."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, Alternative spelling of borscht.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, borscht
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 244 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 244 | #13,564 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 220 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 220 | #14,758 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Borshch?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔɹʃk/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What are other forms of the name Borshch?
- In the etymology graph, Borscht is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Borshch have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Борщ in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Borshch most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Borshch is densest in Poland — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Borshch?
- In Poland, the national register counted 464 people named Borshch in 2026, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Borshch compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Borshch is the 709th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Borshch?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borshchThe 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, “Borshch” — the 709th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.