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The Bororo call themselves Boe. The term 'Bororo' means 'village court', and is their official denomination today.

Along the years, other names were used to identify this people, such as: Coxiponé, Araripoconé, Araés, Cuiabá, Coroados, Porrudos, Bororos da Campanha (referring to those who lived in the region near Cáceres), Bororos Cabaçais (those from the Guaporé River basin), Eastern Bororos and Western Bororos (an arbitrary division made by the Mato Grosso State government during mining times that used the Cuiabá River as reference point).

Among their self denominations are those associated with territorial occupation: the Bóku Mógorége ('inhabitants of the cerrado', the savannas of Central Brazil) are the Bororo from the villages of Meruri, Sangradouro and Garças; the Itúra Mogorége ('forest inhabitants') correspond to the Bororo of the villages of Jarudori, Pobori and Tadarimana; Orari Mógo Dóge ('inhabitants of the place of the pintado fish') refers to the Bororo of the villages of Córrego Grande and Piebaga; Tóri ókua Mogorége ('inhabitants of the foothills of the São Jerônimo Mountain Range') was the name given to a group that has no village left; Útugo Kúri Dóge ('the ones who use long arrows') or Kado Mogorége ('inhabitants of the bamboo woods') are the Bororo from the village of Perigara, in the Pantanal region.