Boris Family History
Boris Name Meaning
Bulgarian and Slovak: from the personal name Boris,
which is of disputed etymology. It is sometimes taken as a shortening
of an Old Slavic personal name, Boroslav, from bor
‘struggle’, ‘conflict’ + slav ‘glory’, but more probably it is
an alteration of the Old Bulgarian personal name Bogoris, borne
by the king of the Bulgars (sometimes known as Boris) who was
converted to Christianity in 864. This is a byname from Turkic
bogori ‘small’. Boris is one of the very few names of
non-Byzantine origin admitted as a baptismal name in the Orthodox
Church, largely because of the popular cult of St. Boris (died 1010),
patron saint of Moscow (whose baptismal name was Roman).Hungarian: from Boris, a pet form of the female personal
name Borbála, or in some cases possibly from the male
personal name Barabás.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Boris Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Boris families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Boris families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Boris Family Origin
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Boris Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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