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Borys

Boys' name

Form of Boris

Borys has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1958, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Borys, 1961

1 in 828,000

Borys over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Borys: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Boris

Ukrainian

What Borys means

Borys is a form of Boris.

Origin, language, and formation

Borys is used in English and Polish. Its origins include Ukrainian.

Borys comes through Ukrainian Бори́с.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Boris, Барыс and Бори́с.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Borys is pronounced /ˈbɔ.rɘs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Borys between 1954 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1958; its best national rank was #3,297 in 1958.

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 Borys?

Borys had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1961
1 in 828,000
5 of 4,142,426 births
Among boys only
1 in 425,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1961
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
574,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Borys sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 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 574,263 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Borys. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Boryss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Borys was born before 1958 — so the typical Borys is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
78.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
23
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 78.3% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Borys 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (7)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,297
1958

Spellings of Borys

Borys is not the most common spelling — Cory is, with 55.1% against Borys'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.

Borys around the world

Where Borys 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
    2006–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2019
    #431
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2014
    #398
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2008–2021
    #631
    in 2021
  • France
    1972–2016
    #6,489
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Borys by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,297
1958
Peak year
1958
7 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Borys

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

BorjaBoranBornaBorachChrysLucerysAerysArysBornBorhanKrysBoraParysBordenJacaerysEmerysAmaurysErysBoruchDracarysViserysEmrysBorisKendrys

Sibling names for Borys

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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