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Baby name
Boris
Boy
Origin of the name
Boris is a Russian name. Saint Boris, a prince of Kiev, and the tsar Boris Godunov bore it.
Classic name
4,621births since 1880
1970sgeneration
No. 891rank at its peak, in 1970
Where babies named Boris are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Boris is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Boris is most common in New York (4.7 times) and California (2.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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