How common is the surname Borg?

4,843 people in the United States had the surname Borg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,751 Americans. It ranked 6,928th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Borg?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Borg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Borg?

Anita Borg, American computer scientist (1949-2003), followed by Veda Ann Borg.

Where is the surname Borg most common?

Wikidata records people named Borg in the United States and Austria.

How do you pronounce Borg?

Borg is /bɔɹɡ/, one syllable.

Is the surname Borg getting more or less common?

More common. 4,733 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,843 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Borg

A Norse surname, carried by 4,843 people in the United States.

Pronounced /bɔɹɡ/ 1 syllable Soundex B620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Borg is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

* As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from various places derived from Old Norse borg (“stronghold”). * As a north/Low German surname, this is the Low German form of the surname Burg. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish בורג (burg, “credit”), from Middle High German borgen (“to lend, borrow”), from Old High German borgēn. * As a Maltese surname, from the noun borġ (“tower, stronghold”), distantly related to the first two senses above.

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,843 people named Borg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,751 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,733.

#6,928

rank among US surnames

4,843

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #6,605)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,921	Marty	4,848	63,685
#6,924	Loudermilk	4,845	63,725
#6,926	Neary	4,844	63,738
#6,928	Borg	4,843	63,751
#6,930	Fordham	4,838	63,817
#6,932	Arguelles	4,837	63,830
#6,933	Holler	4,836	63,843

Who is named Borg

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Borg identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Borgs

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Veda Ann Borg
Actress (1915-1973)
Marcus Borg
American Bible scholar (1942-2015)
Robert Borg
American military officer and equestrian, 1913–2005
Andy Borg
Austrian Schlager singer (born 1960)
Ray Borg
American mixed martial artist, born 1993
Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936–2023)

Notable Borgs come mostly from the United States (6) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Borg

Borg has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Borg come from?: * As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from various places derived from Old Norse borg (“stronghold”). * As a north/Low German surname, this is the Low German form of the surname Burg. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish בורג (burg, “credit”), from Middle High German borgen (“to lend, borrow”), from…
How common is the surname Borg?: 4,843 people in the United States had the surname Borg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,751 Americans. It ranked 6,928th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Borg?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Borg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Borg?: Anita Borg, American computer scientist (1949-2003), followed by Veda Ann Borg.
Where is the surname Borg most common?: Wikidata records people named Borg in the United States and Austria.
How do you pronounce Borg?: Borg is /bɔɹɡ/, one syllable.
Is the surname Borg getting more or less common?: More common. 4,733 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,843 in 2010, up 2.3%.