Names

Variant of Birger.

From a Spanish surname, used as a given name in honour of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Borja (1510-1572). The surname, also spelled Borgia, is derived from the name of a Spanish town, ultimately from Arabic بُرْج (burj) meaning “tower”.

Serbian form of Bořivoj.

Serbian and Croatian form of Bořivoj.

Derived from the Slavic elements borti “battle” and voji “soldier”. This name was borne by a 9th-century duke of Bohemia.

Medieval Slavic form of Bořivoj.

Medieval Slavic form of Boris, probably ultimately of Turkic origin.

Feminine form of Borislav.

Derived from the Slavic element borti “battle” combined with slava “glory”.

From the Turkic name Bogoris, perhaps meaning “short” or “wolf” or “snow leopard”. It was borne by the 9th-century King Boris I of Bulgaria who converted his country to Christianity, as well as two later Bulgarian emperors. The name was popularized in the Slavic world due to the 11th-century Saint Boris, who was a Russian prince martyred with his brother Gleb. His mother may have been Bulgarian. Another famous bearer was the 16th-century Russian emperor Boris Godunov, later the subject of a play of that name by Aleksandr Pushkin.