Boris name - Meaning of Boris
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- Gender
- Masculine
- Lucky Number
- 9
- Usage
- Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Georgian, German, History, Slavic
- Pronounced
- bah-REES (Russian) , BO-ris (German) , BAWR-is (English)
- Boris Meaning
- From the Turkic name Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf". 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. Boris is a Slavic name and is very uncommon in the English language. It is a shortened version of the name Borislav, derived from the Slavic term “boru” which means "battle or fight".
Boris Related Names
Diminutives: Borya (Russian), Bor, Borut (Slovene), Boro (Croatian)
Other Languages: Borys (Polish), Borys (Ukrainian)
Boris Celebrities
Boris Pasternak - Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, Boris Becker - tennis player, Boris Blacher - composer, Boris Karloff - actor, Boris Matas - soccer player, Boris Sagal - film director, Boris Bandov - soccer player,
