Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian : from boros ‘tipsy’, ‘drunk’ (a derivative of bor ‘wine’), hence a nickname for a heavy drinker or in some rare cases a metonymic occupational name for a wine merchant or a wine producer.
- Hungarian : probably a spelling variant of Baros, from a pet form of the personal name Barnabás, Hungarian form of Barnaby.
- Czech and Slovak (Boroš) : nickname from Hungarian boros ‘drunk’ (see 1 above); or alternatively from a Slavic personal name such as Dalibor, or Bořivoj.
- Polish (also Boroś, Borosz) : from a Slavic personal name such as Borzysław or Bolebor.