Boeren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to farm, practice agriculture
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/buːrən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boeren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 12K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 43Kas Boren
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 99Kas Boren
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 Boeren 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
7,672 named Boren, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Boren in US United States, GB United Kingdom, FI Finland and 2 more and Borén in SE Sweden.
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)to farm, practice agriculture
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boeren 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 | — | 7,672as Boren | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Boren | 349 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,492 | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Boeren | 48 |
| SE Sweden | — | 688as Borén | 1 in 15K | 688 | Borén | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Boren | 26 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Boren | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 283as Borén | 1 in 20K | 283 | Boren | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Boren | 2 |
| SC Seychelles | #789 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Boeren | 2 |
7,672 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Boeren is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, definite singular of boer
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)- Eric Boerenb. 1959NLDutch composer and trumpeter
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.5K | #990 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Boeren mean, and where does it come from?
- to farm, practice agriculture Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Boeren?
- A machine transcription gives /buːrən/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Boeren have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Boren, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boeren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boeren is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boeren?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,492 people named Boeren in 2007, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Boeren compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Boeren is the 789th most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boeren?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boerenThe 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, “Boeren” — the 789th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.