Given name & surname · also Spanish
Borja
“tower”
Borja is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Spanish, Tagalog, Catalan, and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Borja comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Borja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 41
- 41 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,037 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,037 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 187 as a first name in 2020; 7,912 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Borja’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Borja has a later derivative in BORGIA. In Spanish usage, Borja as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form BORGIA.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Borja
- Borja IglesiasSpanish footballerborn 1993
- Borja MayoralSpanish association football playerborn 1997
- Borja ValeroSpanish footballer (born 1985)
- Borja OubiñaSpanish footballerborn 1982
- Borja BastónSpanish association football playerborn 1992
- Borja VigueraSpanish footballerborn 1987
- Borja EkizaSpanish footballerborn 1988
- Borja FernándezSpanish footballer (born 1981)
- Borja LópezSpanish association football playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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