Borbála
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/borbaːlɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Borbála is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 571(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 199Kas Борбала
- RSSerbia≈1 in 74K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Borbála itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 571 (inferred from the name graph)
17,124 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Borbala in DE Germany, RO Romania, RS Serbia and Борбала in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borbála counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
17,124 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Borbála is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hungarian form of BARBARA .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Barbara of Cillib. 1392SInot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Hungary, Germany, Bohemia and Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire
- Barbara of Brandenburgb. 1464DEnot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Bohemia and Hungary
- Borbála Pallavicini-Andrássyb. 1890HUHungarian writer
- Borbála Metszőssyb. 1916HUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Barbara Salayib. 1926UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet (1926-2011)
- Borbála Nádasdyb. 1939HUHungarian noble, writer, ballet dancer and actor (born: 1939)
- Borbála Tóth Harsányib. 1946HUHungarian handball player
- Borbala Birob. 1957HUHungarian Biologist and Economist
- Borbála Obrusánszkyb. 1972HUHungarian historian, ethnographer, orientalist and diplomat (1972)
- Borbála DobekHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2011 | 23K | #61 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2012 | 22K | #61 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2013 | 22K | #61 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2015 | 21K | #63 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2016 | 21K | #65 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2017 | 20K | #65 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2018 | 20K | #67 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2019 | 20K | #69 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2023 | 18K | #74 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2024 | 17K | #76 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 17K | #76 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1950 | 713 | #27 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Borbála mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Borbála a male or female name?
- Borbála 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 are other forms of the name Borbála?
- In the etymology graph, Barbara, Bobbie and Bobbi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Borbála?
- A machine transcription gives /borbaːlɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Borbála have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Borbála, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borbála.
- Where is Borbála most common?
- Borbála is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 571 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Borbála?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 17,124 people named Borbála in 2025, about 1 in 571 residents.
- How common is Borbála compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Borbála is the 333rd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Borbála?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borb%C3%A1laThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Borbála” — the 333rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.