Barbora
Just 64 women in Poland go by it, so meeting one would stick in your memory. It's a variant of Barbara, from a Greek word for a stranger or foreign woman.
Barbora Pronunciation
Barbora is pronounced bahr-BO-rah (/barˈbɔra/).
What Barbora means
Where Barbora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Barbora comes from Greek. The word barbaros named anyone whose speech sounded to Greek ears like babble: a foreigner, an outsider, a woman from beyond the walls. Barbora holds that root, and its short meaning sits close to it. Cudzoziemka. A woman from elsewhere.
The variant Barbara traveled wider and settled as the common Polish form. Basia is the diminutive, the version a girl answers to at home and hears called out from a school register.
Saint Barbara fixed the name in the Polish calendar. Her feast falls on 4 December, and Polish miners keep it as Barbórka, a name-day with songs and customs of its own. A girl called Barbora has a date that is already hers. The root under all of these forms is the Greek word for a stranger.
How many people are named Barbora
1 in 352247 women in Poland is named Barbora. 64 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4560 among female names.