Baby name
CLASSIC
🇨🇿 Barbora
/BAR · boh · rah/
Meaning
“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.
Nicknames
bára · bara
Vibe
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.