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Barbora

Girls' name

English equivalent of Barbara

Barbora has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Barbora, 2001

1 in 748,000

Barbora over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barbora: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Barbara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Barbora means

Barbora is a English equivalent of Barbara.

Origin, language, and formation

Barbora is used in Czech, Lithuanian and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Barbara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Barbora is pronounced [ˈbarbora].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Barbora between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #15,675 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Barbora?

Barbora had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barbora sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barbora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barboras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barbora was born before 2001 — so the typical Barbora is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Barbora rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (5)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,675
2001

Spellings of Barbora

Barbora is not the most common spelling — Barbara is, with 99.4% against Barbora's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Barbora around the world

Where Barbora ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Barbora by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#15,675
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Barbora

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Barbora

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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