Given name & surname · also Slavic
Borna
Borna is a masculine given name from Slavic. It is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Borna comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Slavic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Borna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 130
- 130 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,261 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −9%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,261 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 8.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 227 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Borna’s family of names
Borna may belong to the same name family as BORNNA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Borna
- Borna ĆorićCroatian tennis player (born 1996)
- Borna SosaCroatian association football playerborn 1998
- Borna BarišićCroatian association football playerborn 1992
- BornaDuke of Croatia800–821
- Borna Rendulićice hockey playerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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