Entry № 1590 · Other origin

Bori Bori — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.