Bore
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bore is a surname, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in French and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: v., mbo = bo, and mbo, bo, bu; bore through, filo.
- IDIndonesia1 in 987◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2.8K
- TRTürkiye1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈65K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 323 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
426K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Beer in US United States, ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Bir in SY Syria, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 1 more, Baru in ID Indonesia, VN Vietnam and Bor in TR Türkiye, PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
v., mbo = bo, and mbo, bo, bu; bore through, filo
Sources 1
- Vocabulary of the Mende Language
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | 105,054 | 447 rec. | — | listed | Baru | 71 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 44,647 | 16K rec. | — | — | Bor | 48 |
| IN India | — | 41,715 | 310K rec. | 1 in 32K | 42K | Bari | 127 |
| ZA South Africa | #219 | 10,878 | 11K rec. | — | — | Beer | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9,460 | 8.8K rec. | — | 7 | Beer | 169 |
| US United States | — | 8,252 | 57K rec. | 1 in 40K | 9K | Beer | 323 |
| AU Australia | — | 7,902 | 8.1K rec. | — | 2 | Beer | 142 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,059△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 69K | 3.1K | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,572△ | 346 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Beer | 50 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,378△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,328△ | 341 rec. | 1 in 21K | 15K | Bru | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,111 | 2.5K rec. | — | 5 | Beer | 94 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French7.4K30%
- Hindi5.2K21%
- Swahili5K20%
- English2K8%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.3K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 7,443 | 30% |
| Hindi | 5,240 | 21% |
| Swahili | 4,964 | 20% |
| English | 2,014 | 8% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,280 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bore is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, to bore or drill (make a hole through something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, To inspire boredom in somebody.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, past participle of bera
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, boron
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, v. BOAR
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1929 | 3 |
| 1930 | 4 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 3 |
| 1935 | 9 |
| 1936 | 4 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 10 |
| 1940 | 13 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 7 |
| 1943 | 15 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 11 |
| 1946 | 8 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 13 |
| 1950 | 9 |
| 1951 | 16 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 17 |
| 1954 | 18 |
| 1955 | 20 |
| 1956 | 14 |
| 1957 | 18 |
| 1958 | 23 |
| 1959 | 27 |
| 1960 | 20 |
| 1961 | 26 |
| 1962 | 19 |
| 1963 | 23 |
| 1964 | 36 |
| 1965 | 34 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 38 |
| 1969 | 35 |
| 1970 | 45 |
| 1971 | 28 |
| 1972 | 40 |
| 1973 | 42 |
| 1974 | 39 |
| 1975 | 54 |
| 1976 | 36 |
| 1977 | 26 |
| 1978 | 49 |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 49 |
| 1981 | 45 |
| 1982 | 28 |
| 1983 | 32 |
| 1984 | 32 |
| 1985 | 38 |
| 1986 | 36 |
| 1987 | 52 |
| 1988 | 40 |
| 1989 | 44 |
| 1990 | 46 |
| 1991 | 33 |
| 1992 | 30 |
| 1993 | 36 |
| 1994 | 33 |
| 1995 | 27 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 22 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 4 |
| 2015 | 11 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tordis Boreb. 1906NONorwegian teacher
- Thor Bjarne Boreb. 1938NONorwegian politician (1938-2019)
- Albert Boreb. 1946GBBritish politician (born 1946)
- Geir Arne Boreb. 1967NONorwegian journalist and contributing editor
- Bjørn Kristoffer Boreb. 1969NONorwegian newspaper editor
- Peter Boreb. 1987GBEnglish association football player (born 1987)
- Marie Rein BoreNONorwegian journalist
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 300 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bore?
- We estimate roughly 65 thousand people bear Bore (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bore have the most bearers?
- Bore is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled baru.
- How common is Bore compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Bore is the 219th most common surname of 302,267 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Bore mean?
- Recorded meaning: v., mbo = bo, and mbo, bo, bu; bore through, filo
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bore” — the 219th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.