Bortner
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bortner is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Cook Islands it is the 6th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 141K◐
- USUnited States1 in 354K
- CKCook Islands1 in 803
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈939 ●
- Sources
- 163 ●
- 1 in 354K ◐
across 1 country
10K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Börtner in SE Sweden.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,644 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Bortner | 6 |
| US United States | — | 939 | 7.3K rec. | 1 in 354K | 1.2K | Bortner | 163 |
| JM Jamaica | #739 | 241 | 248 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 171 | 172 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 115 | 111 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 90 | 89 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | 39 | 39 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 2 |
| CK Cook Islands | #6 | 39 | 119 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 26 | 26 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | 24 | 24 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | 23 | 23 rec. | — | — | Bortner | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8 | 8 rec. | — | — | Börtner | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English9.7K85%
- German4554%
- Spanish3243%
- 1471%
- French1251%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 9,726 | 85% |
| German | 455 | 4% |
| Spanish | 324 | 3% |
| 147 | 1% | |
| French | 125 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Michael Bortnerb. 1949USAmerican 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 939 | #26,086 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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 Bortner?
- We estimate roughly 939 people bear Bortner (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Bortner have the most bearers?
- Bortner is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled bortner.
- How common is Bortner compared with other names?
- In Cook Islands, Bortner is the 6th most common surname of 291 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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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, “Bortner” — the 6th most common surname in Cook Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.