Entry № 1582 · Korean origin

Bora Bora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Purple"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "purple".

Bora (보라) is the native Korean word for "purple." A modern Korean feminine name.

Bora (Yang Bo-ra, born 1986) is the K-pop singer of Sistar.

Purple. The native Korean.

The name in its native script.

보라
Transliteration
Bo-ra
Pronunciation
/ ˈboʊ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bora stands.

Bora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Boras before her.

Real people
Bora
K-pop singer (Sistar).
born 1986
In fiction
Bora
Common in K-dramas.

Names connected to Bora.

The number behind Bora.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bora reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.