Entry № 1590 · Other origin

Bori Bori — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Hungarian Borbála diminutive (Saint Barbara)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Hungarian)

A name that means "hungarian borbála diminutive (saint barbara)".

Bori is from the Hungarian Bori — diminutive of Borbála (Hungarian rendition of Barbara — from the Greek barbaros, foreign). Bori is one of the Hungarian feminine diminutives. Saint Borbála (Saint Barbara, c. 3rd c. CE) was a early Christian virgin martyr — patron saint of miners, artillerymen, and those facing sudden death. across Hungarian Catholic + Eastern Orthodox heritage.

Barbara diminutive (Hungarian).

The name in its native script.

Bori
Transliteration
Bori
Pronunciation
/ ˈboʊ.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bori stands.

Bori 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.

Boris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Borbála
Hungarian Saint Barbara devotion.

Names connected to Bori.

The number behind Bori.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bori reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.