Borste
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: bristle
Borste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 630K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 671Kas Boerste
- CACanada≈1 in 2.1Mas Boerste
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Borste 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 630K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 named Boerste, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Boerste in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 1 more and Börste in DE Germany.
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)bristle
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Borste is read
(measured from records)Borste is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hindi43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Borste in Hindi.
- English30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Borste in English.
- German9.4%
bristle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish7.0%
a brush
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Borste 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 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Boerste | 72 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 630K | — | Börste | 24 |
| CA Canada | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Boerste | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 671K | — | Boerste | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Boerste | 1 |
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.
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)Borste is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of borsten
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, plural of bors
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xib, five
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Veste
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Borste mean, and where does it come from?
- bristle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Borste have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 134 people named Boerste in the United States, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Borste?
- Mondonomo estimates about 130 people in the United States have Boerste as their first surname, about 1 in 2.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Borste?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borsteThe 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, “Borste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.