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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Russian : Fight

Boy name variations

Boris

Boris

- 19% this year
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Borys

Borys

0 % this year
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Boriss

Boriss

0 % this year
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Borja

Borja

0 % this year
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Borris

Borris

0 % this year
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Borya

Borya

0 % this year
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Boryenka

Boryenka

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Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Börs) : from a short form of the medieval personal name Liborius.
  • Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Bors.
  • Hungarian : from bors ‘pepper’, ‘hot spice’, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a spice merchant or a cook.

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