Barbora
given name · Czech · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Barbora is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Slovak, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., tschechische Form von.
- CZCzechia1 in 94◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 440
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈115K ●
- Sources
- 166 ●
- 1 in 94 ◐
across 10 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Meaning & origin●
weibl. Vom., tschechische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #48 | 114,402△ | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 94 | 114K | Barbora | 166 |
| SK Slovakia | #77 | 5,556 | 703 rec. | — | #20 | Barbora | 117 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 949 | 652 rec. | — | listed | Barbora | 56 |
| DE Germany | — | 556 | 468 rec. | — | 1 | Barbora | 76 |
| AU Australia | — | 461 | 394 rec. | — | 1 | Barbora | 39 |
| NO Norway | — | 349 | 21 rec. | — | 316 | Barbora | 8 |
| US United States | — | 268 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 268 | Barbora | 111 |
| AT Austria | — | 197 | 105 rec. | — | 11 | Barbora | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 150 | 588 rec. | 1 in 333K | 150 | Barbora | 24 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 97 | 61 rec. | — | — | Barbora | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 83 | 46 rec. | — | 4 | Barbora | 23 |
| SE Sweden | — | 76△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 134K | 76 | Barbora | 9 |
Roughly 114K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 94). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Czech529K98%
- Slovak5.4K1%
- English2.3K1%
- Spanish9321%
- German8301%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | 528,745 | 98% |
| Slovak | 5,443 | 1% |
| English | 2,311 | 1% |
| Spanish | 932 | 1% |
| German | 830 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 17 |
| 2007 | 17 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 24 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 23 |
| 2012 | 25 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 28 |
| 2015 | 36 |
| 2016 | 40 |
| 2017 | 46 |
| 2018 | 50 |
| 2019 | 51 |
| 2020 | 48 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saint Barbarab. 273TRnot in their usual nameearly Christian saint and martyr, from Nicomedia (273-306)
- Barbara of Cillib. 1392SInot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Hungary, Germany, Bohemia and Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire
- Božena Němcováb. 1820ATnot in their usual nameCzech writer (1820-1862)
- Barbora Kodetováb. 1970CZCzech actress and presenter
- Barbora Bobulováb. 1974SKSlovak actress
- Barbora Špotákováb. 1981CZCzech javelin thrower
- Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcováb. 1986CZCzech female tennis player
- Bria Vinaiteb. 1993LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian actress
- Barbora Krejčíkováb. 1995CZCzech tennis player (born 1995)
- Barbora Seemanováb. 2000CZCzech swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 47 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 114K | #46 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 57K | #53 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 57K | #53 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 984 | #9,401 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 316 | #3,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 268 | #31,690 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 150 | #11,348 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 132 | #5,585 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 122 | #4,797 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 76 | #10,282 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 73 | #1,849 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 73 | #1,849 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Barbora?
- We estimate roughly 115 thousand people bear Barbora (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Barbora have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 114 thousand people bear Barbora in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled barbora.
- Where is Barbora most common?
- Barbora is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 94 people carrying it.
- How common is Barbora compared with other names?
- In the Czechia, Barbora is the 48th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
- Is Barbora a male or female name?
- Barbora is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Barbora mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., tschechische Form von
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Barbora” — the 48th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.