The name Boris is usually given to a Boy.
And we are pleased to let you know that we found the meaning of your name, Battle, Fight.
The origin of the name lies in Slavic.
Boris is pronounced as BO-riss
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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'.
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Boris | Boy's Baby Names | Bounty
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Meaning
Derived from Slavonic origin meaning 'fight, battle' it is commonly used in
German, Russian and Slavic languages.
Meaning, origin and history of the name Boris - Behind the Name
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Pronunciation
/bɐ.ˈrʲis/(Russian) /ˈbɔɹ.ɪs/(English) /ˈbôː.ris/(Croatian) /ˈbo.rɪs/(Czech) /ˈbɔ.ris/(Slovak) /ˈboː.ʁɪs/(German) /bɔ.ʁis/(French)
Origin
Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, German, French
Meaning
From a Bulgar Turkic name, also recorded as Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short"
Or "wolf"
Or "snow leopard". It was borne by the 9th-century
Boris I of Bulgaria, who converted his realm to
Christianity and is thus regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church. To the north in Kievan
Rus it was the name of another saint, a son of
Vladimir the Great who was murdered with his brother
Gleb in the 11th century. His mother may have been Bulgarian.Other notable bearers of the name include the Russian emperor
Boris Godunov (1552-1605), later the subject of a play of that name by
Aleksandr Pushkin, as well as the Russian author
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the Bulgarian king
Boris III (1894-1943), and the Russian president
Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007).