Borba
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/boɾbɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Borba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 940(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.2K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 940 (inferred from the name graph)
98,042 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
브라질 아마조나스(Amazonas) 주 남쪽에 있는 도시.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #179 | 98,042 | 1 in 2.2K | 98K | Borba | 169 |
| UY Uruguay | #173 | 3,605 | 1 in 940 | 3.6K | Borba | 40 |
| AO Angola | #718 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Borba | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,757 | 1 in 189K | 1.8K | Borba | 151 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,128 | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | Borba | 41 |
| PT Portugal | #495 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Borba | 55 |
| PY Paraguay | #478 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Borba | 18 |
98,042 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Borba is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of borb (“fierce, violent; rude; coarse, strong, pungent”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, illative singular of bor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, slime, silt, mud, sludge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, fight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Portugālē, Evoras apgabalā, 7300 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Brazīlijā, Amazonasas štatā, Madeiras labajā krastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Telêmaco Borbab. 1840BRBrazilian politician and writer
- Manuel Borbab. 1864BRBrazilian politician (1864-1928)
- Francisco de Paula Borbab. 1873PTPortuguese physician (1873-1934)
- Rubens Borba de Moraesb. 1899BRBrazilian librarian, professor, historian
- Osvaldo Borbab. 1914BRBrazilian pianist
- Michele Borbab. 1950USAmerican author
- Rivaldob. 1972BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Jana Inab. 1976BRnot in their usual nameGermany-based Brazilian TV host and model
- Andrew Borbaactor
- Rogério Morosini BorbaBRBrazilian politician
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 98K | #284 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #16,007 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,921 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Borba?
- A machine transcription gives /boɾbɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Borba have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 98 thousand people named Borba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borba.
- Where is Borba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Borba is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 940 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Borba?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 98,042 people named Borba, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Borba compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Borba is the 179th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Borba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borbaThe 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, “Borba” — the 179th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.