Bornface
given name · bem · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bornface is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Malawi it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in bem and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZMZambia1 in 1.1K◐
- KEKenya1 in 12K
- MWMalawi1 in 726
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 28K ●
- Sources
- 18 ●
in 5 countries
497 records
Reference-verified
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #807 | 2,364 | 361 rec. | — | — | Bornface | 18 |
| ZM Zambia | #153 | 1,956 | 36 rec. | — | 23K | Bornface | 18 |
| MW Malawi | #64 | 572 | 2 rec. | — | — | Bornface | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 58 | 59 rec. | — | — | Bornface | 7 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 19 | 14 rec. | — | — | Bornface | 7 |
| US United States | — | 19 | 14 rec. | — | — | Bornface | 14 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 5 | 2 rec. | — | — | Bornface | 6 |
| NA Namibia | — | — | 2 rec. | — | 2 | — | 1 |
| SZ Eswatini | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- bem23K82%
- Swahili5K18%
- English831%
- Indonesian61%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| bem | 23,300 | 82% |
| Swahili | 4,997 | 18% |
| English | 83 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 6 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | A page showcasing the most common names in Zambia, published by WorldNames. | 2023 | 23K | #2 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 16 | #29 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 2 | #27 |
| SZ Eswatini | Eswatini EBC 2023 Secondary Elections candidate ballots | 2023 | 1 | #38 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bornface?
- Our records include 28,354 bearers of Bornface across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Bornface have the most bearers?
- Bornface is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled bornface.
- How common is Bornface compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Bornface is the 807th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Bornface a male or female name?
- Bornface is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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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.
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, “Bornface” — the 807th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.