The Bore surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 136 people carried this name — #126,018 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted. That is up 20% from 113 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 850 people named Bore.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 52 départements, most often Maine-et-Loire.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
665 people named Bore are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Bore,
with a public archive behind them.
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Berit Knutsdatter Bore d. 1724
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Helga Villumsdatter Østre Bore d. 1730
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Kari Gjermundsdatter Bore d. 1672
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Mats Tollakson Bore d. 1645
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Anna Knutsdatter Fjogstad d. 1728
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Tollak Gunnarson Bore d. 1599
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bore.
- Bordes 637 · U.S. census
- Bordi 162 · U.S. census
- Bordin 113 · U.S. census
- Bordon 426 · U.S. census
- Bordone 119 · U.S. census
- Bordy 135 · U.S. census
- Borek 1,350 · U.S. census
- Borel 2,096 · U.S. census
- Borella 385 · U.S. census
- Borelli 2,029 · U.S. census
- Borello 473 · U.S. census
- Bores 650 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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