Barbora
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Barbora is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common given name. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., tschechische Form von.
- CZCzechia1 in 94(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 952
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 212K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 94 (inferred from the name graph)
114,402 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., tschechische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barbora 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #49 | 114,402 | 1 in 94 | 114K | Barbora | 170 |
| SK Slovakia | #70 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 952 | #20 | Barbora | 120 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 758K | — | Barbora | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 1 | Barbora | 79 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 212K | listed | Barbora | 76 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 11 | Barbora | 30 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Barbora | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | 30 | 1 in 12K | 30 | — | 2 |
114,402 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; the sk-minv-names register; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
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 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 11 | #1,868 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 1 | #2,144 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2024 | — | #17 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | Slovak Ministry of Interior (MV SR) — Most popular newborn names (annual press release) | 2024 | — | #20 |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barbora mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., tschechische Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- In which country does Barbora have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 114 thousand people named Barbora, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barbora.
- Where is Barbora most common?
- Barbora is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 94 people carrying it.
- 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 are other forms of the name Barbora?
- In the etymology graph, Barbara, Bobbie and Bobbi are forms of the same name in other languages; Bára is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Barbora?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 114,402 people named Barbora, about 1 in 94 residents.
- How common is Barbora compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Barbora is the 49th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barboraThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Barbora” — the 49th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.