Bora
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: dative singular of bor
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɔɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bora is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 33rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 231as Brown(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 616as Browne
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.9Kas Browne
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 Bora 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)
- #815 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 475 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,437,026 named Brown, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Browne in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more and Bera in IN India, AL Albania.
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)
dative singular of bor
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bora is read(measured from records)
Bora is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Hindi50%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bora in Hindi.
- Turkish22%
dative singular of bor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Genellikle arkasından yağmur getiren sert ve şiddetli fırtına.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English5.0%
An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
as a wordkaikki.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)
Bora 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 | — | 1,437,026as Brown | 1 in 231 | 1.4M | Browne | 475 |
| IN India | #184 | 338,790as Bera | 1 in 3.9K | 339K | Bera | 178 |
| GB United Kingdom | #411 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Browne | 261 |
| AU Australia | #323 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Browne | 223 |
| CA Canada | #852 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 2 | Browne | 198 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,902as Brown | 1 in 1.8K | 2.9K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,773 | 1 in 119K | 13K | — | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1,764as Browne | 1 in 57 | 1.9K | — | 18 |
| GY Guyana | #33 | 1,217as Browne | 1 in 616 | 1.2K | Browne | 14 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1,083as Browne | 1 in 50 | 1.2K | — | 31 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 971 | Bera | 13 |
1,437,026 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling brown. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); The page lists the most common surnames in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines based on data from official sources.; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page presents a detailed list of surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, focusing on their frequency and cultural signifi; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Bora 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.
Czech: short form of Barbora (see BARBARA ), used as a pet name.
as a word
In Yoruba, to bleach one's skin; to lighten one's skin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, less-favored wife, wife who is not her husband's favorite
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)
- Katharina von Borab. 1499DEwife of Martin Luther (1499-1552)
- Bogdan Borab. 1920GBBritish writer
- Ekrem Borab. 1932TRTurkish actor (1932–2012)
- Lakshmi Nandan Borab. 1932INIndian writer (1932-2021)
- Mevlüt Borab. 1947TRTurkish cyclist (born 1947)
- Salih Borab. 1953TRTurkish wrestler (born 1953)
- Eko Freshb. 1983DEnot in their usual nameTurkish-German rapper and actor
- Vedat Borab. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Erimşah Borab. 1998TRTurkish actor (born 1998)
- Ionut BoraRORomanian film actor
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 71 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 42K | #358 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 935 | #27,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 627 | #35,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 582 | #36,328 |
Reference works 9
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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
- What does the name Bora mean, and where does it come from?
- dative singular of bor Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bora?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɔɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bora have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 million people named Brown, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Bora?
- In the etymology graph, Боран is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Bora?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,773 people named Bora, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
- How common is Bora compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Bora is the 33rd most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boraThe 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, “Bora” — the 33rd most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.