Boris

Where Boris comes from

Borrowed from Bulgarian Бори́с (Borís).
— Wiktionary's entry for Boris
  • Slavic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #1,740 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Boris Yeltsin born
    Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia
  3. 1962
    Peak, #871
    76 babies named Boris — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1964
    Boris Johnson born
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
  5. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,743.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Slavic languages.
Namesakes
  • Boris Yeltsin · Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia, 1931–2007
  • Boris Johnson · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022, born 1964
  • Boris Pasternak · Russian writer, 1890–1960
  • Boris Perchatkin · Christian Russian-American human rights activist, born 1946
  • Boris Nemtsov · Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician, 1959–2015

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.