Baby name

CLASSIC GIRL · GREEK-CZECH
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Barbora

/BAR · boh · rah/


“Foreign woman or stranger”

Czech and Slovak form of Barbara, from Greek Barbaros meaning foreign woman or stranger; the local spelling gives a pan-European classic a distinctly Central European identity.

bára · bara

warm

How it ages.

Classic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia; the local form ensures it never reads as borrowed.

The cultural moment.

Standard classic in Czech and Slovak naming for centuries; steady rather than fashionable.