Borís
given name · Latin script
Meaning: full form of baptismal name used as surname
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Borís is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 10K
- USUnited States1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Borís itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boris in US United States, DE Germany, FR France and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
full form of baptismal name used as surname
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borís counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #422 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Boris | 247 |
| US United States | — | 14,924 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Boris | 403 |
| FR France | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 16K | Boris | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | #23 | Boris | 101 |
| HR Croatia | — | 13,269 | 1 in 319 | 13K | — | 4 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 527 | 628 | — | 5 |
| MD Moldova | #327 | 9,889 | 1 in 340 | 9.9K | Boris | 21 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 7,520 | 1 in 280 | 7.5K | — | 36 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 3,869as Борис | 1 in 549 | 3.9K | — | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); e-services.md — living population register; SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names; NSI — newborn names (press release). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Boris Godunovb. 1552RURussian Tsar (1598–1605)
- Andrei Belyb. 1880RUnot in their usual nameRussian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
- Boris Pasternakb. 1890RURussian writer (1890–1960)
- Boris III of Bulgariab. 1894BGking of Bulgaria (1894–1943)
- Boris Yeltsinb. 1931RUSoviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)
- Boris Spasskyb. 1937RURussian chess player (1937–2025)
- Boris Perchatkinb. 1946USChristian Russian-American human rights activist
- Boris Berezovskyb. 1946RURussian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
- Boris Gryzlovb. 1950RURussian politician
- Boris Akuninb. 1956RURussian writer, translation, and historian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Borís mean, and where does it come from?
- full form of baptismal name used as surname Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- Is Borís a male or female name?
- Borís is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Borís have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Borís in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boris.
- Where is Borís most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Borís is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 280 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Borís?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,924 people named Borís in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Borís compared with other names?
- In Germany, Borís is the 422nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bor%C3%ADsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Borís” — the 422nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.