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Girl · Greek, through Latin
Borbála
Say it: BOR-bah-law
Meaning
From Greek barbaros 'foreign'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A traditional Hungarian form of Barbara that has been revived in recent decades.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Bori
| English | Barbara |
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Parish baptism registers
- National birth statistics of European countries source
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