Meaning & origin
What it means
Voris is a form of Voorhees. Voorhees goes back to Dutch Hees, meaning “(from) before Hees.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Voris is a form of Voorhees. Voorhees comes from Dutch.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Voris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 110 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 1960. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 108 as a first name in 2020; 1,271 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Voris’s family of names
In English usage, Voris as a surname has a related form in VOORHEES.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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