Nabors

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Jim, US actor, singer

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈneɪbɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nabors is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Jim, US actor, singer

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nabors is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Variant of English Neighbor.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Swedish, indefinite genitive plural of nabo

    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)

1850190019502000Jack Nabors, b. 1887Roland Nabors, b. 1924Jim Nabors, b. 1930Rob Nabors, b. 1971Rachel Nabors, b. 1985Justin Nabors, b. 1987

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)

FormalDear Nabors,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Nabors
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.7K#6,017
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.7K#5,635
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.5K#6,001
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#279,147
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1#27,593
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Nabors mean, and where does it come from?
Jim, US actor, singer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Nabors?
A machine transcription gives /ˈneɪbɝz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Nabors have the most bearers?
Nabors is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Nabors”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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